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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: "family legacy" <familylegacy02@msn.com>
Reply-To: agnesfamilylegacy@katamail.com
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:17:42 +0000
Subject: YOUR RESPONSE IS HIGHLY NEEDED
FROM MRS AGNES KHOBE.
PLEASE LET ALL YOUR CORRESPONDENT BE ON MY PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESS.
agneskhobe@3xl.net
DEAR BELOVED FRIEND
This business proposal to you is strictly confidential, with due
respect.
Sorry at this perceived confusion or stress 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.Agnes Khobe, the wife of late Brigadier -
Gen.Maxwell Khobe 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 your country 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 IN ONE OF THE EUROPIAN STATE that my late
husband deposited U.S $35.5 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 in EUROPE to avoid detection, seizure or
diversion. I have had several telephone discussions with the Assistant
Director of the security company in EUROPE, 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. I look forward to your
urgent response, including your full mailling address indicate 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.
MRS AGNES KHOBE
PLEASE LET ALL YOUR CORRESPONDENT BE ON MY PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESS.
agneskhobe@3xl.net
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