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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 FATIMA ABDULLAH" <faboullah@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: faboullah77@yahoo.de
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:44:26 +0000
Subject: dear beloved
dear beloved
May the peace of Allah, the Most Gracious, Beneficent and Merciful be with
you and your household.
I am your Sister in Islam Mrs. Fatimah Abdullah. I am married to Mr.
Mubarrak Abdullah for eleven years without any child. We are citizens of
Solomon Islands and my husband was the Solomon Islands High Commissioner in
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. He passed away on the 15th August 2004. I recently
nationalize here in Malaysia.
My late husband was a wealthy man and during his life time he focussed on
helping many Islamic Organizations both in our country and Africa where the
Muslims were passing through great difficulties. He strive to see that the
good work of Allah was taken to greater height.
Since I was not able to give him a child, my Sisters and Brothers In-law
have been treating me bad and saying that I was responsible for my late
husband's death, and most of them are not Muslims. Before Allah I declared
that I was not responsible for that, but they disagreed. The Holy Al-Quran
made us to understand that no body dies before his time, and for this reason
my late husband died a natural death for I would benefit nothing from
killing a loving, kind and caring husband who had brought honor to me.
On the 10th of March 2005 I was diagnosed cancer of the lung, and medical
reports detailed that I would not live for more than two months here on
earth. So for this reason I decided in my heart, through directions from
Allah to have some money which was left by my late husband donated to your
care for the work of Charity. I had wanted to contact the people affected by
the Tsunami disaster but when I came across your contact I was moved by
Allah to communicate to you in this regards.
My late husband deposited the total sum of Three Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars (3,500,000.00) with a security company here
in Malaysia, and it is this money that I want to donate to you as quickly as
possible because I don't know what the result of my illness could be.
In the security company here there are some restrictions in securing foreign
currencies into security company funds, and because of this, and that the
money was in US Dollars my late husband packaged it and put it into a chest,
and now had the chest deposited to the security for safe keep.
I want you to write back to me as quickly as possible, and I want you to
give me the assurance that you will use this money completely to help the
poor and promote Allah's work. If you are not worthy of handling this money,
do not hesitate to notify me and I will look for another person.
I would have included my phone number here, but the doctors forewarned me
not to use phones henceforth because the echoes give me head and brain
problems. If you can handle this money, I will meet with the security
company upon hearing from you, and will apply for the release and onward
payment to you.
I am highly waiting for your urgent response, and kindly remember me in your
daily sualat
Wslm.
Sister Fatimah Abdullah.
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