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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: "Mariam Camara" <mcama333@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mcama111@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:32:04 +0100
Subject: Very urgent
Dear good friend
Greetings to you.Please pardon me for contacting you
without any formal appointment or communication do
consider my status as asylum seeker in Dakar Senegal.I
will like to seek your assistance in receiving and
investing the sum of US$4.8M held in a holding company
here in Dakar-Senegal.The money was deposited by my
late father who was killed last year by the rebels
during the uprising in Abidjan-Cote d' Ivoire. He was
until his sudden death a diamond /cocoa dealer in
Angola and Cote d' Ivoire which is where he made his
wealth. Me and my mother arrived Dakar few days ago
and confirmed the validity of this deposit then
decided to contact you for assistance in view of our
present situations. We got your contact through the
Internet data base while searching for my father's
friends in your country.
More details will be given to you as soon as i hear
from you.Please include some of your personal details
for us to establish a good business and family
relationship
I look forward to hearing from you
Honestly yours
Mariam Camara
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