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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: "Daniel and Rita Catim" <daritacatim@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: da_ritacatim@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:54:52 +0000
Subject: We are Daniel and Rita Catim
Daniel and Rita Catim
Boulevard de latrille,
11 PLATEAU Abidjan.
Cote D'Ivoire.
REP OF IVORY COAST
We are Daniel and Rita Catim.
Please kindly assist us.
We know our message will come to you as a surprise,first of all, we will like to wish you a compliment of the season.
We are DANIEL and RITA CATIM and we are writing to you from Abidjan Rep of Cote'Ivoire.
We hope you will Permit us to inform you of our desire of going into business relationship with you.
When we got your name and contact,we prayed over it and selected your name among other names after reading your profile and we believe that you will be a trustworthy person that we can do business with and we must not hesitate to confide in you this simple and sincere business.
We are DANIEL and RITA CATIM the son and daughter of late CHIEF and MRS MICHAEL KOFFI CATIM.
Our father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan the economic capital of Ivory coast.
Our father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip.
Our mother died six years ago and since then our father took us so special.
Before the death of our father on april 2005 in a private hospital here in Abidjan,he secretly called us to his bedside and told us that he has the sum of Twelve million three hundred thousand United State Dollars.USD ($12.300,000) left in a fixed/suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan and that he used my name as his only son for the next of Kin in depositing the fund.
He also explained to us that it was because of this wealth and also that the federal goverment of IVORY COAST thinks that he is financing the rebels secretly but that was not true and that was the reason why he was poisoned by his business associates with the helpof the goverment and he advised me that he case he does not survive the poisoning and dies,i should seek for a foreign partner in a country our choice where we will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management incase he dies.
Now that he is dead,we need to get out this country as i am only a boy of 20 years old and my siser is 18 yrs old.
Please,we are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to.
(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am
only 20 years and my little sister 18 years old.
(3)To make a feasibility study and recommend some
worthwhile business investments which flourishes there in your country.Our approach is in view of my ill-experience in business.
This fund being the basis of our future and business
ambition,your friendship,honest assistance and advise will be appreciated so much while relying on your guidance for profitable business establishment in your country.
(4)To make arrangement for me and my siseter to come over to your country to further our education and to secure aresident permit in your country.
Moreover,we are willing to offer you 15% of the
total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas.
Furthermore,Please if you think you can be of an
assistance to this our problem,try to contact us with this e-mail addresse above for more discussion and modalities of this transaction and we am willing to offer to you 15% of the total money and also a negotiable percentage for the investment project.
We will forward all the documents concerning this
deposit to you,together with our picture on confirming to os your interest to assist us in this
our situation and we believe that this transaction
would be concluded within seven (7) Working days you signify interest to assist us.
Please help us to get out of this terrible situation and our Almigthy God will bless you.
Anticipating to hear from you soon.
Thanks and God bless.
Best regards,
DANIEL AND RITA CATIM
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