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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: "bens savimbi" <bens101@canada.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:48:21 -0800
Subject: for your kind attention.
Dear Sir,
This letter may come to you as surprise due to the fact that
we have
not met before, but only hope it will find you and your
business in
the best of interest.
Let me quickly introduce myself and the purpose of my
contacting
you.My name is Bens Jonalito Savimbi, son of the late rebel
leader, Jonas
Savimbi of the popular ANGOLA UNITA MOVEMENT.My father was
killed on the
22nd of February,2002 while my mother CATARINA was captured
and currently in a hospital in Luena, capital of Moxico
province in Angola and we the children are desperately
looking for a trust worthy person to assist us in this
confidential business.
The abstract of the business, is that my father deposited
huge sums
of money realised from the sales of diamond and other
precious stones
and metals in a security company off-shore and as a
signatory to the
deposit and financial confidante of my father, I was
advised by my
father's account officer to seek for a reliable and
trustworthy person
who can quietly secure the money amounting to
US$28,500,000.00 (Twenty-eight million, five hundred
thousand dollars) since we have been restricted from
travelling out of our immediate localities. My reason for
seeking your assistance primarily, is that the Angolan
government cannot trace the money to an off-shore individual
count especially when such person bear nither blood nor
financial relationship with us.
After negotiations, I will give you a power of attorney, the
personal
identification number (pin), the particulars of the finance
and
security company which is off-shore and our contact officer
there to
facilitate the clearance.
Angola at the moment is very tense and unstable but I am
presently
living somewhere in the COTE D' IVOIRE Border with my family
and we
have never experienced this financial difficulty presently
facing us
hence the need to secure the money through your assistance
from the security company with the information I will give
to you as stated above and also with the assistance of my
father's finance officer there, as we must secure what
rightly belong to us with respect to
the social cause that my father stood and died for.
As for your compensation, we will have to negotiate in terms
of
percentage how much will accrue to you from the money
deposited
(US$28,500,000.00) which will be released to you and with
the help of
our link man in the finance and security firm you can have
the fund
deposited into any account of your choice that is convenient
or safe after your personal collection of the money.
Presently, we have applied for refugee status which may be
granted in
the on going peace process between UNITA and the Angola
Government
and you will be generously rewarded at the conclusion of the
peace
process by investing on behalf of the family in DIAMOND and
related
businesses in the future if you assist us in securing the
money
quietly.
Please,let me know immediately whether or not you are
willing to
assist us through my e-mail address and provide me also with
your
phone & fax numbers.I will be the one to contact you for now
for
security reasons here in my country.
Finally,I crave your indulgence to treat this correspondence
confidentially in order not to compromise my family and
myself.
Yours Sincerely
Bens Jonalito Savimbi
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