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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: "JAMES DESOUZA" <james_desouza0@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: james_desouza1@walla.com
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:36:21 +0100
Subject: I AND MY MOM!!
Dear Friend,
I humbly ask for your assistance to enable me transfer the money my late father kept in a bank in Dakar Senegal Africa,before he died,
into your nominated account overseas.My name is James Desouza , my mother’s name is Madam JANET Desouza and my late father’s name is Dr Richard Desouza.
He was a gold and diamond merchant from Ashanti region of Ghana in West Africa.
I am from a polygamous family and my father has four wives and twenty-four children, am the eighth child and my mother is the last wife of my father and he entrusted
all his valuable documents to her. Since we are from a polygamous home, after the death of my father, the whole family has been deserted. Now my elder brothers, sisters and their mothers are in search of my father’s documents but my mother who is in possession of the documents has refused to disclose the custodian of the documents to them,because they are all fighting for themselves and their selfishinterest.
Right now all I want from you is your bank account number where we can instruct the bank to transfer this money to you by telegraphic transfer, which takes
about three working days.
We are making this arrangement in order to avoid the rest of the children and their mothers, because if they find out they will take everything from us. Furthermore, we have contacted and requested to claim the funds and as I write, all necessary machineries has been put in place to
necessitate the smooth transfer of the funds to any nominated bank account of our choice.
The original document of the transaction including the pin code has been couriered to them by our family lawyer Barrister Kofi Komelo.
My mother is the next of kin to my father’s estates,as shown in the legal documents, please kindly help us to effect this transaction, it is for the mutual benefit of both parties, you will be entitle to twenty percent of the funds, as the owner of the account, the total amount in the bank is £8.5million pounds sterling. Please reply immediately with your Bank account details so that we can forward the information to the bank in London to expedite the transfer immediately. Could you also include your contact address, fax numbers and your private mobile phone number for easy communication.Please help us we dont want to die,they are after our live becuase of the fund that is in my mom name as the next of kin.
Kind regards
James Desouza (Son) and
Madam Janet Desouza
(Mother)
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