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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: "Tom Sankoh" <tom_sankoh@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tom4sankoh@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:08:51 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY
First and foremost i must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction and i prayed that my decision to contact you will be given
guinea approval considering the fact that we have not know each other
I which to introduce myself to you, Am Mr.Tom Sankoh from sierra Leone in
west Africa, Am 22years old the first Son of Dr.willaim Sankoh i got your
contact from a noble gentleman and his wife (Mr. and Mrs.Steve Baker) who
were tourist that came to our refugee camp to give a seminar about
AIDS, whom my mother confronted that we are looking for a trust worthy and
God-fearing person that can assist us retrieves my inheritance from one
security so that we can come over and investment in country.
My late father was shot by rebels on his way ravelling to Louisa a city
after Freetown the capital city along with my elder brother. My brother died
on the spot why myfather was rescue by the UN peace keeping force and was
taken to the hospital for medical treatment which he later died after three
months. Before he died, he reveal to my mother about 2 trunk boxes
containing $19.5 million US Dollar and some uncut diamonds which cost 5
million usd all inside 2 boxes which he deposited with a security company
here in Ghana(PROVIDENT INSURANCE AND SECURITY COMPANY GH LTD) for safe
keeping. My late father get this money from the sales of his diamonds, My
father never discloses the contents of the boxes to the security company to
avoid the officials to raise an eyebrow on the funds he deposited the funds
as a family belongins.
Presently I and my mother are here in Ghana to notify the security company
for the claims, and we are staying in the refugee camp. When we got to the
security company, we were told that my late father made an agreement bonds
with the security company that hey should not release th consignments to any
member of my family without a foreign business partner in oversea that is
why my mother and I are contacting you and seeking for your assistance to
make the claim of 2 boxes to your country and to sale the diamonds for
us.Therefore, I want you to lecture me and my mother how best we can invest
this funds, because my father told us that its dangerous to invest this
funds in Africa to avoid suspicious and due to the market instability couple
with the economic and political instability facing African
countries, that is why we wants to invest in abroad.For your mutual
assistance, myself and my mother have agreed to offer you 20% out of the
funds. We have all legal documents covering the deposit and the ownership
which we can fax you or by email. So I will really like you to get back to
soon with your direct mobile
number and Fax number.
Regards and God Bless
Tom Sankoh (For the Family)
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