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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: "Karim A.Sallah." <karim_abubakar52@yahoo.com.au> (may be fake)
Reply-To: karim_abubakar51@yahoo.com.au
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:08:23 +0200
Subject: Hello
Dear,
I am contacting you believing you are a honest and trustworthy person.
I believe you will not betray the confidence I am willing to repose in
you, for me to have contacted you even though we've not met before.My
name is karim abubakar Sallah,the only son of late Mr.Hassan Goudali
Sallah who was the chairman /President/Ceo,Cacao-Cafi & Agro-Alimentaire
industrie Plc.(SCAFECAO)"Bouake" and ex-owner of Polyclinic LA-MADONNE,
of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire.
You can find the story on this website:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2269238.stm>
On 19th of September 2002,a group of so called rebels took over the city
of Bouake to over-throw the Government of Mr. Laurent Gbagbo the President
of Cote d'Ivoire. On the next day morning at about 4:18am some fractions of
the same group of rebels break into our house and killed our security guard
and pass-through the gate entrance to the main building and took my father
away to an un-known destination.
After about four hours later we found him (my father) at the road side,by
then he had been totally beaten and was bleeding to death lying in the pool
of his own blood. From there, we rushed him to a near by hospital and hours
later he sent for my mother. So he told her that he can not make it from the
doctors diagnosis, he also told her that it was because he (my father) was
not from the northern part of the country that he has been treated this way
and also being a political activist. And again he said he is suspecting some
of his business partners for conspiracy and this sort of brutality. He also
told my mother that he deposited a huge amount of money about US$ 9.3 million
dollars (Nine million three hundred thousand us dollars)in a Holding Firm in
the Capital city of Senegal (Dakar) and also told her where he kept the whole
documents concerning this deposit that is made for investment purpose in the
western world.
That same day,he (my father) gave up the ghost. Then with the help of the French
soldiers, we escaped to Senegal, where we are now. I'm writing with a view of
soliciting for your kind assistance towards the retrival and transfer of this fund
to your account for further investment. Your able co-operation is to become my
business partner in your country and create ideas on how money will be invested,
properly managed and the type of investment after the money is transferred to your
custody with your help and assistance, I and my mother has decided in compensating
you 20% of the total amount for your assistance.
Please do take your time to go through the mail and get back to so that I will simply
introduce to the Holding Firm where the fund are being kept now for onward transfer.
I am waiting for your response.
Thanks and God bless.
Karim A.Sallah.
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