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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: "Jim hilary" <jimhilary7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jimhilary5@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:27:45 -0900
Subject: Confirm Previous Notice
The Beneficiary,
Estate of Abdul Malik Issa .
FINAL NOTIFICATION
Please confirm your receipt of this mail because previous hardcopy letters
have been sent through your mailing address but we did not get any response
from you. Not to worry, because even if it was intercepted in the course of
postage, no execution will be carried out without the endorsement of Immam
Walid Ibraim and me the attorney for the execution.
On-behalf of the Trustees and Executors of the Will of late of Abdul Malik
Issa (ksm), I wish to notify you that you were listed as a beneficiary to
the bequest of the sum of US$4,100.000.00 [Four Million One Hundred
Thousand US Dollars] in the codicil and last testament of the deceased. The
late Abdul Malik Issa until his death was a former Managing Director and
pioneer staff of a big construction company in China an later invested in
poultry farm and grains.
He established himself as a wealthy farmer in Asia where he exported rice
and other poultry products. He was a very dedicated man and a great
philanthropist during his life time. He involved himself in helping people
by giving investable loans in agriculture and other ventures.
Late Abdul Malik Issa died on 9th October 2004 at the age of 78. He has
since been buried on the 23rd of October 2004. He was an American lived in
Asia all through his active years but later move down to London due to long
term illness where he died in a specialist hospital . He was married but
without a child an lost his wife in 1986 due to breast cancer. He said in
his words as stated in his last testament that "it is my desired wish to see
that the poor and less privileged are given assistance by any means and
limit this token could go, especially Asia, Africa and South America having
seen it all myself. He therefore advised that this amount be invested and
the part of the proceeds be used in the work of humanity".
I hereby request that you forward your current telephone for further
discussion and your forwarding address to enable us file necessary documents
of claims at probate registry for the release of this funds to you.
Please inform me if you did receive this notification.
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Yours faithfully,
Jim Hilary (llb.Lon)
Estate of Issah
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