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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 Bennie Khobe" <mrsbennie_khobe@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:36:37 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP
GOODAY SIR
This 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. I am
Mrs.Bennie Khobe, the wife of late Gen. Maxwell Khobe former ECOMOG [West
African peacekeeping force] commander who died in the Sierra Leone civil
disturbance [War].
My three daughters and I are trapped in obnoxious custom traditional rites.
We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the hands of my late
husbands family, simple because I did not bear a male child for my late
husband By tradition, all that my husband had, [wealth] belongs to his
brothers/family and myself is to be married by his immediate younger
brother. They have taken all that I suffered with my husband to acquire
including treasure, houses and his bank accounts closed 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
documents to further frustrate me. Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key
Text Code [KTC} from SECURITIES COMPANY, that my husband deposited U.S $5.5
Million [FIVE Million five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars] cash with
this company.
It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact some one, a
foreigner like you to help me receive/secure these funds overseas 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 a CODE with the
Securities Company to avoid detection, seizure or diversion. I have had
several telephone discussions with the Assistant Director of the Securities
Company, who has express willingness to help me on meeting the
company�s demand. 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 20% 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 will forward you the contact of Mr. MARTINS PHILPI for you to contact
him and ask him the possibility of receiving this fund on our behalf as the
sole beneficiary look forward to your urgent response.
Best Personal Regards.
MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU
Mrs. Bennie Khobe.
PLS REPLY: mrsbennie_khobe05@yahoo.com
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