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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: "Chris Apate" <chrisapate2@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:38:54 +0000
Subject: Urgent Assistance
Dear Sir/Madam,
Firstly, let me apologize for infringing into your privacy. This is
necessary as I hope to present a proposal to you, which I know, would be of
immense benefit to you and me. I am very much aware that you might have come
across this kind of preposition, as a lot of scandalous misrepresentation,
has been perpetuated by my government in collaboration with other foreign
government to curb and frustrate the effort of people like myself who are
trying to better the life of their families.
My name is Mr. Chris Apate and I am the protocol officer to the first Lady
Mrs. Stella Obasanjo the wife of the immediate president federal republic of
Nigeria GENERAL OLUSEGUN OBASANJO who died on the 23rd of October 2005 after
a surgery at the Molding clinic of cosmetic surgery of
Marbella in Spain.
Actually, I was at present with the late first lady (MRS STELLA OBASANJO)
when she deposited the sum of U.S$ 25.5m in a financier security company's
vault in Spain before she went for a cosmetic surgery that led to her death.
As a Civil servants and a personal assistant/protocol officer to the late
first Lady, I am well monitored in the sense that I'm not allowed to travel
out of the country at my own free will and also cannot operate a foreign
account and my account are known to the government etc. For this reason I
need an outsider who will front for me and make claims to this fund, bearing
in mind that I have the original copies of all the relevant documents about
the deposit including the keys to the box and I
intend to use my position to make all the necessary documentation that will
be needed from you for the claim of the box. I want to assure you that this
transaction is a 100% risk free and confidential.
What I need you to do for now is to present yourself as a business associate
to Late Mrs. Stella Obasanjo and reclaim the funds from the security
company, I will use my office to prepare an invoice indicating some business
transaction between you and the first lady amounting to that
and I will also write a letter instructing the security company to release
the deposit to you once you present the invoice and the certificate of the
deposit to the security company including the keys to the box. In this case,
they will consult my office for verification and fortunately, I signed as a
witness when the deposit agreement was signed between Late Mrs. Obasanjo and
the security company.
The good thing is that i am working with an insider in the security company
in Spain who is a senior director of the company and he is in this DEAL with
me, I will give his telephone number to you in Spain once I hear from you.
If you are willing to assist me to reclaim this fund, I am willing to give
you 30% of the total sum of U.S$ 25.5m once we reclaim the deposit from the
security company, and I will make arrangement to come over to your country
to receive my share. I anticipate the whole transaction will take about 10
working days to complete once we write an official application to the
security company for the release of the deposit to you. I have called the
security company in Spain and told them that there
was a letter of instruction Mrs. Obasanjo wrote before her death stating the
transfer of the deposit to a business associate.
I decided to communicate this to you through your e-mail because I know it
is very confidential and secure. Due to the nature of this transaction I beg
you to maintain absolute confidentiality at all levels.
You can view all the information from the Internet website below:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051023/ap_on_re_af/obit_nigerian_first_lady
Expecting your immediate response
Thanks.
Your Faithfully
Mr. Chris Apate
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