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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: "Kenneth Lucious" <prince_luken@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: prince_luken@excite.com
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:32:56 +0000
Subject: ur urgent reply is needed...
Compliments of the season!
I and my Mother write to seek for your assistance and we 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 and invest our funds in
oversea, I and my mother will be very happy and appreciate and we welcome
your assistance.
First and foremost I must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction and I prayed that my decision to contact you will be given
genuine approval considering the fact that we have not known each other
before.
I which to introduce myself to you, I’m PRINCE KENNETH LUCIOUS from Sierra
Leone West Africa, I write to inform you of my desire to invest and buy a
house in your country, Am 22years old the second Son of KING MICHEAL LUCIOUS
(11). My father before his death, he was a Diamond/Gold Merchant in my
Country.
My late father was shot by rebels on his way travelling to Louisa a City
after Freetown the Capital City along with my elder brother. My brother died
on the spot why my father 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 a trunk boxes
containing $12.5 million US Dollar which he deposited with a security
company here in Ghana for safe keeping. My father never discloses the
contents of the boxes to the security company to avoid the officials to
raise an eyebrow on the funds.
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 they should not release the
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.
Therefore, I want you to lecture me and my mother on how best we can invest
this funds, because my father told us that it is dangerous to invest this
funds in Africa to avoid suspicion and due to the market instability couple
with the economic and political instability facing African countries, that
is why we want to invest in abroad.
For your mutual assistance, myself and my mother have agreed to offer you
25% out of the funds. We have all documents covering the deposit and the
ownership which we can fax to you on request. So I will really
like you to get back to us soon, with your direct mobile number and Fax
number.
Regards and God Bless…
Prince Kenneth Lucious (For the Family)
Private Email: prince_luken@excite.com or princelucy@lycos.co.uk
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