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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: "oboete jack" <oboete111jack@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:52:44 -0800
Subject: good day
Top of the day to you my friend? It may astonish you to be informally
contacted for a pending transaction of this magnitude more especially
since you do not know me personally. The purpose of my introduction is
to bring to bear my present position and the very need for true and
solicited help with regards the transaction at hand. after a thorough
search on your person and profile.I am interested in Investing funds in
the
REAL ESTATE
sector which is certainly your area of expertise and I
believe you are the right person to help in the purchase
of this properties for adequate investments by your person.
I am Oboete Jack, the personal assistant to Charles Taylor, the formal
President of Liberia. He has stepped down from power under serious
pressure from the president of America and AOU and is presently in
asylum in Nigeria. Well dear friend I need your Assistance and Trust
in transferring some of the money derived from gold excesses during
his tenure into your account and investing this fund in the REAL ESTATE
of your country, because the present government in power
is making plans to seize all his assets, and I happen to be the only
one
for now that knows and with the documents of where i kept the funds.
View these websites:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/11/taylor.warcrimes/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/11/liberia.1300/index.html
The amount is USD$60.6 million, in a Security firm in Europe. All that
is
needed is for me to instruct the company to transfer the funds to your
account, I will remunerate you with 15% of the total funds transferred
to your vital bank account as compensation for your assistance and the
remaining you shall invest on my behalf immediatley,and secure
traveling
documents for my family to come over to your country since all my
traveling
documents have been confiscated by the United Nations. To indicate your
interest, kindly provide me your direct phone and fax numbers and all
relevant
information for investing fund in the REAL ESTATE fOR me to contact you
with
more details. All the legal information concerning this Money will be
sent
to you as soon as we agree together.
At the moment we all have been confined on political asylum in Calabar
,the
southern part of Nigeria and the United State of America and
International
community are struggling to try Charles Taylor in world court, for war
crime. Please if this proposal satisfies you and you are willing to
assist
me and invest this fund for me in the REAL ESTATE of your country with
honesty and trust, please contact me by email immediately or call me at
my
direct telephone line 234-8032215988.with your full names, telephone
and fax
numbers to enable an immediate
contact as I have advised above.
Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.
Best Regards
Oboete Jack.
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