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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: "SAMAD GIDADO" <samad_gidado@msn.com>
Reply-To: samad_gidado_01@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:46:58 +0000
Subject: HELP ME AND MY FAMILY
ASSALAAM ALAIKUM
I Know that it is a thing of great astonishment to read this mail and of how
you were contacted .But if you open up your mind and embrace this
information, you will see it as a Blessing to be contacted. I will start by
introducing myself to you as ALHAJI TAJ SAMAD GIDADO. I am the personal
assistant to the Palestine Leader YASSER ARAFAT who has just given it up for
the ghost. But as of now, I must tell you that am in a fix and house arrest
since my boss grew ill. His second in command got us all (those that work in
close with Arafat) arrested, threatened to kill us all then assume the
office of our boss YASSER ARAFAT. He even went as far as freezing all our
accounts and left us with apparently nothing to find our family of which now
my own family is living from hand to mouth.
Due to my boss trust and reliance in me, he entrusted a lot of things to my
care of which I never disappointed him. But there is a particular box he
kept in a security company which nobody knows excepts me, so as his
condition has gotten worst and am afraid of tomorrow, I will like to take
charge of that Box that has $72,000,000,.00 USD in it before the second
in command performs his worst.
You may ask why am contacting you, it is nothing but that if I should pull
this money into my account or else where, the Palestine government is going
to probe me and may seal may life for ever if not life jail, that is why I
will like you to come into this place. I will give you the information of
the security Company for you to contact them, telling them that you are sent
by me to pull the money that was kept with them but before then I will
contacted them about you so that there will be nothing to suspect. I have
mapped that 5% out of the whole money will be used for any miscellaneous
expenses and who so ever that helps me in pulling this money, will be
compensated with 25% of the whole lot. Then the remaining 70% will be kept
for me in a safe place of your choice till I come over to your place where I
can invest the money into a profitable business.
But if I did not make it to life, please kindly divide my own 70% share into
2 parts, 1 part is to be given to charity organization. Then the other
remaining part to be kept for my family and you will do me the favour of
finding them and give it to them, though i will tell them about this deal.
ALLAH guide us and bless us all as we proceed into this transaction.
ASSALAAM ALAIKUM
ALHAJI TAJ SAMAD GIDADO
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