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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: linda kone <linda225ci@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:06:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: TRUST / CONFIDENTIAL
Dear respectful one,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into
business relationship with you. I know this mail may
come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or ,written before. Introducing myself, I am Miss Linda Kona,21 years of age the only of the daughter late Mr and Mrs Kona Barry ,my father was a Gold and cocoa merchant based in Accra, Ghana and Abidjan (Ivory Coast), he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips. Before the death of my father on 29th June 2002 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. he secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of USD$12.5M (Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S), deposited in security company here in west Africa that he used my name as his only daughter for the next of kin in depositing the fund. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as expansion of his existing cocoa business and
real estate management here on how best to transfer this money to overseas please.
I am humbly seeking your assistance in the following
ways :
1-To assist me in providing an account of yours where
this fund can quiekly be transferred into.
2-To serve as the guardian of this fund since I am
still in the university.
3-To make arrangement for me to come over to your
country to further my education and to help me secure
a residential permit in your country. Moreover, I am
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, while 5% will be set aside to offset
any expenses we may incur. Furthermore, you can
indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe
that this transaction would be concluded within the
shortest possible time if you signify interest to
assist me.
NB : Please contact me immediately you receive
this message through this email address if you are
interested.
God bless.
Yours sincerely,
Linda.
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