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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: "desmond belon" <desmondbelon_99@msn.com>
Reply-To: desmonbelon@sify.com
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:50:37 +0000
Subject: IMPORTANT MESSAGE
IMPORTANT MESSAGE
FROM: MR. DESMOND BELLO
I have an urgent and confidential business proposal to make you.
I do seriously need your help because I am disabled from a motor
accident and cannot travel abroad on Doctor’s orders. I was an
Oil consultant based in the United Kingdom, and because I helped
a lot of foreign Crude Oil Companies to get Crude Oil Lifting
Rights and lucrative Oil Contracts from Nigeria, I was able to
amass a fortune worth about USD20 million. On 21st December,
2004, I left the UK finally with my family, and came back to
Nigeria. But because of the unfavourable political and economic
climate in Nigeria, and for security reasons, I put my money
total USD20million in a Security Safe Deposit Vault company.
On 22nd December, I and my whole family was involved in a very
bad accident on our way home to our Village at Benin, about 700
km from Lagos, Nigeria; I lost my entire family in the accident,
and I myself fell into a coma since then… I eventually recovered
from coma, and was discharged from the hospital two weeks ago. I
have no money with which to sponsor any one in Nigeria to
undertake the trip for me; in any case , my extended family here
abandoned me in hospital when they realized that the money which
I came back with had been spent on hospital bills; I am currently
living on the charity of the church. And now, I need your help
to collect this money and invest it in a profitable
venture abroad; I cannot bring in this money into Nigeria for
fear of seizure by the Government. If the money is properly and
profitably invested abroad , I intend to leave Nigeria
permanently.
Can I count on your help? If you agree to help me, I will send
you by Post/courier the ELECTRONIC CARD KEY of my vault so that
you can go to the safe deposit company and open the vault;
You will then remove the money total USD20 million
and transfer it to your Bank Account.
For your help and assistance, you will keep 25% of the
money for your self and keep 75% for me in safe custody until I
travel to meet you and invest my share… If you agree to help me,
please reply giving me the following information:
1. Your Complete name and Street (POSTAL) address
2. Your Phone and fax number, including mobile
3. Your confidential email address
TO PREVENT THE KEY AGAINST LOSS IN TRANSIT, PLEASE KINDLY STATE
YOUR CORRECT NAME AND STREET ADDRESS… THIS IS NOT A JOKE OR A
HOAX! YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CONFIRM THAT THIS EMAIL IS A GENUINE
100% LEGITIMATE PROPOSAL, ONCE YOU REPLY AS ABOVE.
Once I receive your reply stating your street postal address as
above, I will send you the Safe Deposit Vault Key by EXPRESS
MAIL, and I will also forward to you more details of this
transaction by email. Details will include the address, contact
details including the website of the Safe Deposit Company in
London where my money is currently stored…
Best regards,
Mr. Desmond Bello
Plot 57 Yakubu Gowon Estate,
Garki, Abuja, Nigeria
Tel/: 00 234 80 43 4305 91
Email: desmondbelon@sify.com
PS: PLEASE REPLY ONLY BY THIS EMAIL; EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT
ABLE TO HELP ME, PLEASE REPLY ANYWAY AND TELL ME, SO
THAT I CAN CONTACT ANOTHER PERSON TO HELP ME
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