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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: "Mrs.Vivian Frimpong" <mrsvivien@afrik.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mrsvivien_frimpong@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:18:23 +0100
Subject: READ AND REPLY NOW
Vivian Frimpong [Mrs.]
HOUSE 4, C CLOSE, MANET ESTATES,
ACCRA-GHANA
E-mail: mrsvivian_frimpong@freeghana.com
Hello Dear,
I got your contact via the Internet and I was simply inspired and motivated to reveal my life secret to you.
My names are Mrs. VIVIAN FRIMPONG, and I am living with AIDS. Ever since my husband, Hon. MENSAH FRIMPONG, the former managing director of Goldfield Mining Company LTD. died of AIDS and I was tested positive of the AIDS virus, my late husband’s family relations wouldn’t just let me and my family be.
My children have stopped going to school because they could no longer stand the humiliations from fellow students. The embarrassments are getting on my nerves but what can I do? I would have loved to travel out of the country to a place where I will have peace and spend the rest of my life with my children but I couldn’t make it for I am weak and severely sick.
Moreover, no Embassy would grant me Visa to her country with my hairs withering and boils all over my body. From all indications, I know that my days are numbered.
In the light of the above, I have contacted you to assist me to transfer out of Ghana the SUM OF $12 MILLION U.S DOLLARS which my late husband deposited as [DIAMOND/GOLD] with a safety company for the up-keep of my children, and safe-keep it for my children as they will be coming over to your country in due course to live and school.
According to tradition and culture in our community, if a man dies all his properties and wealth will be shared among his family relations and nothing will be left for the children, as they are persuading me to move out from our matrimonial home so that they can sell the house, and because of that my husband gave this document to me without any one's concept except his lawyer whose signature appears in the documents.
YOU WILL INVEST THIS MONEY FOR MY CHILDREN IN COMMERCIAL ESTATE OR ANY BUSINESS OF YOUR CHOICE YOU DEEM HEALTHY. Please if you will assure me that you will handle my children as yours by given them Good education, Open bank account for each of them and give them Parental Care, then I will release the funds to you so that you can use the money to start the process before their arrival in your country.
For your effort, I am prepared to give you 30% of the total funds.
I am looking forward to hearing from you while thanking you for your anticipated cooperation in this regard.You can contact my husband lawyer Mr.Frank Green of Liberty Chambers on Telephone : 00233 244 06 2605
Kind Regards,
Vivian Frimpong [Mrs.]
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