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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: "Sampson Sarowiwa" <sampson_sarowiwa1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: sampson_sarowiwa@yahoo.ca
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:00:13 -0800
Subject: GOD IN HIS INFINIT MERCY SHALL PAY YOU.
Dear Friend,
My name is Samson Sarowiwa, 28 years of age . I am sending you this mail
with grief and sorrow in my heart because my own blood brothers have
subjected me to physical and psychological trauma.
I am from Ogoni Kindom the highest oil producing area among the Niger Delta
in Nigeria. I am the last son of late King Sarowiwa of Ogoni who was killed
by hanging in the year 1996 by the late dictator General Sani Abacha . My
Late father was the ruler of entire Oguni land that is enriched with oil.
Due to youth’s restiveness in my town, the multinational oil companies
operating in my town pays huge sums of money to the town through my father
who happened to be the traditional ruler. The oil companies were also paying
him a huge sum of money as the traditional ruler.
The death of my late father came when I was a little boy of 19 years and my
mother happened to be the last wife among the three wives of my beloved
father. Three years after the death of my father, problems began from my
half brothers and mothers who teemed up together against my mother and I. My
father’s properties and money were shared among them leaving my mother and I
in lurch. Because of their wickedness and egocentric, they said that we are
personnel nongrater and there is no legacy for us in the family for the fact
that no body can protect our interest, and I am of no use to the family.
I want to tell you that we had suffered a raw deal in the hands of a thing
towards the attitude of my half brothers and their mothers. Their plan is to
wipe us away from the surface of the earth for them to inherit the whole
world.
As God may have it, we never new that my beloved father deposited the sum of
$6.5m(six million, five hundred thousand united states dollars) in a bank
for me and my mother simply because he envisaged what we are going to face
in the hands of my half brothers. We came to know about this when my mother
made a search and found out the document of the deposit. Ever since my
father died, we have not have peace because my half brothers had claimed
everything, which my late father left behind saying that I am the only son
and daughter in the side of my mother. Their reason for that is they are the
seniors and whatever our father has belongs to them.
Please, be informed that the money he willed for me is unknown to my
brothers and I have decided to leave this country with my mother for good in
other to be alive and invest the money in a foreign country. The reason I
want your assistance is that I want to present you as the beneficiary of the
money to the host bank so that they will transfer the money into your
account immediately . I wish I could inform you that any attempt by me to
claim this money myself here will cost my life from my brothers since they
are ready to kill.
Finally, I solicit for your help to make it possible for me by claiming this
fund from the bank where my father deposited it. I will provide with you the
entire legal and vital document, which will confer you as the beneficiary of
the fund. I promise you 30% of the fund thereafter you have claimed it from
the bank.
I wait eagerly to hear from you. God bless you as you help the needy ones.
Sincerely Your,
Sampson Sarowiwa
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