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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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Fraud email example:
From: richardwilliams01@webmail.co.za
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:16:56 +0200
Subject: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE(Mr.John Williams family)
From: Mr. Richard Williams
Johannesburg-South Africa
family Email: richardwilliams10644@yahoo.com
Good day,
I am Mr. Richard Williams, the only son of late Chief John Williams, from Sierra-Leone. I got your contact from the Internet directory and need an assistance from you. My sources of your contact gave me encourage and confidence to write on you. I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek for your assistance to transfer our cash of (Twenty Million United Stated Dollars) (20,000,000.00) now in the custody of the Security and trust Company here in South Africa to your private account pending our arrival to your country. SOURCES OF THE FUND
My late father, chief John Williams, a native of Mende District in the northern province of Sierra-Leone, was the general manager of Sierra-Leone Mining Co-operation (S.L.M.C) Freetown. According to my father, this money was the income accrued from mining co-operation over draft and inor sales. Before the peace of the civil war between the rebel forces of Major Paul Korormah and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from power of the civilian elected president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels. My father had already made arrangement for his family, my mother, my little sister and myself to be evacuated to South Africa, with our personal effort and the box containing the money. My father deposited the box in a private security company here in South Africa for the safe custody until after the war when he will join us. During the war in my country, and following the! Indiscriminate looking of the public and government by the rebels
forces, the Sierra-Leone mining coop. was one of the targets looted and destroyed.
My father including other top government functionaries were attacked and killed by the rebels because of the relationship with the civilian president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.
As a result of my father's death, our hope of survival. The untimely deaths caused mother heart failure and other related complications of which she later died in hospital after we must have spent a lot of money on her. Now, my 17 years old sister and myself are alone in this strange country suffering without any care or help. Without any relation, we are now like refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in you and the box deposited in a Security Company.
To this effect, I humbly solicit your assistance in the following ways. To assist me claim this box from Security Company as co-beneficiary. To transfer this money in your name to your country To make good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country and you, the caretaker. To secure a college for my little sister and myself in your country to further our education And to take arrangement for our travel with you to your country after you have transferred this fund. Most important, the security company official does not know the exact content of the box because it was declared as family valuables to avoid over demurrage. The whole document issued after deposit is in my custody. For your assistance, I have conceded 35% of the money to your efforts assistance.
Looking forward for your response.
Best Regards
Mr. Richard Williams family).
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