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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: "Alice Kobe" <alicekobefamily@kobefamily.com>
Reply-To: mrs_alicekobe@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:07:09 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE
PRESIDENT & C.E.O
DEAR: SIR/Madam
This business proposal to you is strictly confidential, with due
respect. Sorry at this perceived confusion or stress you may have receiving
this letter from me, Since we have not known ourselves or met
previously. Despite that, I am constrained to
write you this letter because of the urgency of it.
By way of self introduction, I am Mrs. Alice Kobe, the wife of late
Brigadier -Gen.Maxwell Kobe former ECOMOG ARMY COMMANDER [West African
peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone] who died in the Sierra Leone civil
disturbance [War]. My three daughters and I are trapped in obnoxious
custom and traditional norms.
We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the hands of my
late husband's family, simply because I did not bear a male child [heir
apparent] for my late husband. By tradition, all that my late husband
had, [wealth] belongs to his brothers/family. And myself is to be
remarried by his immediate younger brother which I vehemently refused. They
have taken all that I suffered with my husband to acquire including
treasures,
houses and his bank particular seized by them. I wanted to escape to the
United State of America [USA} with my children on exile, but again they
conspired and stole my international passport and other traveling
document to further frustrate me.
Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code from a Security
Company abroad, that my late husband deposited U.S $45.5 Million cash with
this company. It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to
contact someone, a foreigner like you to help me receive/secure these
funds overseas in a reliable bank Account (presumably an empty Bank
Account, if available) and to help invest it on our behalf as well, while we
find a way of getting out to meet with you in your country.
These funds are kept on an "OPEN BENEFICIARY MANDATE" with the Security
Company to avoid detection, seizure or diversion. I have had several
telephone discussions with the Assistant Director of the security
company, who has express willingness to help me on meeting the company's
demands. This is why I have contacted you to help save my children and I,
receive these funds on our behalf. But, you would need to give me
sufficient assurance that if you help me, you would not divert the funds. My
children and I have resolved to give you 30% of the total sum. This is
all my children and I have got to live on.
Please, I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not
disappoint me.Please kindly get back to me through my
alternative email address (mrs_alice_kobe@yahoo.com). I look forward to your
urgent response, including your private phone / mobile No and also your
fax no for easier communication.
NB: The secret codes (e.g Pin No., Secret Access Code) for this fund
are safely kept with me which I can give you as soon as you express
desire to help me.
Stay blessed.
ALICE KOBE
mrsalicekobe@mail15.com
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