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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: "Paul Thomas" <paulthomas2005@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:15:09 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE.
Dearest One,
REQUEST TO BE MY GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP ME TO COME OVER TO YOUR COUNTRY:
Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? I got your contact from
internet,permit me to inform you of my desire to ask you to be a guardian or
foster parent to me and then help me out in what I'm about to tell you.I'm
Paul Thomas (16)I,m the only child of Late Mr.& Mrs.Joseph Thomas. My father
was a very wealthy Oil Marchant in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. He was
poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a
business trip. My mother died when I was a child.
Before the death of my father on Sept. 2004 in a private hospital , he
secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of
Fifteen million United State Dollars USD ($15m) deposited in a Finanace
Security Company in Lagos. He told me that he used my name as the next of
Kin in depositing the money .He then strongly advised me not to seek for
assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his
friends here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of my choice
(outside my country,Nigeria) that will assist me in the wise investment of
the money.I have since left the money in the Company with the view of my
making use of it for investment purposes after my educational carrier
here.I now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose.
Because of this I am honorably seeking your assistance in the following
ways:
(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me clear and transfer the
fund into your bank account. (2) To make arrangement for me to come over to
your country to further my education and then settle there parmanently. If
you accept to stand as my guardian or foster parent to me, i need not to
discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as
yours and then assist me in investing it. But if you still want a
percentage, i am willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as
compensation for your assistance.Please tell me if you feel the percentage I
offered is not ok by you.
As soon as I receive your concrete assurance to assist me with my proposal
and also your full contact address/phone number, I will then give the
Company your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money
into your account as I want to come over to stay with you permanently. The
Company will then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You
shall then be giving me information on when the transfer will be over.
No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please I beg you to keep
this highly secret for my safety, as I believe that those that killed my
Daddy are still after me. Please reply me.
Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Paul Thomas.
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