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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: "aliibrahim" <ali_arram001@yahoo.es>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:41:46 -1200
Subject: FROM ALI IBRAHIM IS VERY URGENT PLEASE
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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