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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: "Ali Ibrahim" <ali_ibrahim101@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: albrahim002@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 04:58:42 -0800
Subject: FROM ALI IBRAHIM, IS VERY URGENT
Dear Sir,
With a very desperate need for assistance, I have summed up
courage to contact you. I am from (will disclose this later),
presently working in Iraq with an international organisation that I will
also disclose later, I found your contact particulars in an address journal.
I am seeking your
assistance to evacuate the sum of (US$8.523 Million Dollars)
Eight Million five Hundred Thousand And Twenty Three Dollars to your country
or any other safe country of your choice, as far as I can be assured that my
share will be safe in your care untill I complete my service here,this is no
stolen
money, and there are no dangers involved.
SOURCE OF MONEY:
Some money in various currencies was discovered concealed in
barrels with piles of weapons and ammunitions at a location near one of
Saddam,s old palaces during a rescue operation, and it was agreed by all
party present that the money be shared amongst us, this was quite an illegal
thing
to do, but I tell you what? no compensation can make up for
the risks we have taken with our lives in this hell hole.
The above figure was given to me as my share, and to conceal
this kind of money became a problem for me, so with the help of a German
contact working here, and his office enjoys some immunity, I was able to get
the package out to a safe cation entirely out of trouble spot.
He does not know the real contents of the package, and believes that it
belongs to an Asian/American who died in an air raid, and before giving up,
trusted
me to hand over the package to his business associate. I
have now found a secured way of getting the package out to a safer country
for you to pick up, and will discuss this with you when I am sure that you
are willing to assist me.
One passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss
this matter with a third party, should you have reasons to reject this
offer, please destroy this mail as any leakage of this information will be
too bad for us.
I do not know for how long we will remain here, and I have
survived 2 suicide bomb attacks by the special grace of God, this and other
reasons I will mention later has prompted me to reach out for help, I
honestly want this matter to be resolved immediately. Please contact me as
soon as possible.
Regards,
Ali Ibrahim
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