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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: "Henry K. Mensah" <hkmensah64@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mail2hkmensah@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:19:41 -0800
Subject: Request for your partnership
FROM THE DESK OF MR. HENRY KOFI MENSAH
Phone: +233 243331032
Greetings,
My name is Henry Mensah. I am the Chief Credit Officer (CCO) and the Regional Manager of Barclays Bank, Takoradi branch, in the Western region of Ghana. I am a man of peace, married, and blessed with three lovely children. In good faith, I write you this proposal; I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and I. As the Regional Manager and the Credit Controller of Barclays Bank, it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city, Accra, at the end of each business year.
On the course of last year, 2004, business report, I discovered that the branch which I am the Manager made Five million eight hundred and fifty thousand United States dollars ($ 5,850,000.00) which my head office is not and will never be aware of. As an officer of this bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money. My aim of contacting you is therefore to assist me receive this money in your bank account and get 30% of the total fund as your commission.
There is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from the breach of any law; it will be simply a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund, the person who made the deposit in my branch, so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account within three working days. If you accept to work with me, I shall appreciate it very much because you are the first and the only person I have contacted for this transaction.
At this juncture, I wish to tell you what prompted me to package this deal. I have a 9-year old daughter who has leukemia, a disease of the blood, and she needs a bone marrow transplant or she will die. I want this transplanting to be done in any good children’s hospital in your country if there is one. Once this fund is transferred into your account, I shall resign from my job and bring my family to start a new life in your country. I would be grateful if you would help me invest my own part of the money in a very profitable business. I have worked for this bank for the past 15 years yet I have nothing to show for it, my yearly income after tax is barely $ 2,500.00; I really need your assistance to secure this fund as soon as possible.
My private phone number is +233 243331032 Please call me or send me an email as soon as you receive this message if you think we can work together so that we can go over the details. Thank you in advance; may God bless you and your family.
Yours truly,
Mr. Henry K. Mensah
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