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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: "Edward Lee" <edwardlee_005@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:41:50 +0100
Subject: Re:Best Regards.
ATTENTION:
SIR,
I seek your indulgence in sending you this mail, and I want you to coincide
and get back to me.
My names are Barrister Edward Lee (Edward CHAMBERS & ASSOCIATES)I am a
Fifty-One (51) years old established Lawyer, a member of the Zimbabwe Bar
Association and the attorney at law to
Engineer.Alfonzo Ahmad, who was formerly a personal aide to one of the top
ministers of president Mugabe's former Government. He also headed the
comittee for diamond and gold research on Zaire's natural exchange programme
to Zimbabwe.
Due to his position and closeness to the ministers, he was able to
manipulate with a substancial amount of diamond and gold with worth
amounting to US$11.5million and deposited the money
in a safe and secured security company outside of Zimbabwe.
Because of the civil war that occured in Zimbabwe,which took my clients
entire family. He was taken to south africa as a refugee, where he
eventually became partially paralised, until his
untimely death in November 2003. I am writing you this letter for your
consent to pronounce you at the security company as my late clients next of
kin, so that together we can work out things and have the consignment
cleared and deliverred to your safe hands.
Be informed that you have nothing to worry about with regards this fact.As
the lawyer of the deceased, the law states that I have the final say on who
is and is not the next of kin beneficiary of the deceased's estate and
properties.
I am in possession of vital information and legal documents needed to back
you up for this claims, all I require from you is your honest co-operation
to enable us see this transaction
through. Be guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement.
I await your urgent response to enable us start this transaction in earnesty
so we can proceed and also discuss the sharing ratio for the money between
us and the procedures to make
the claim.
As soon as i get your consent, i will furnish you with the details and
contact of the security company and a face to face meeting would be arranged
in other to know each other better.
I strongly believe that associating with you to embark on this and perhap
other business ventures will derive a huge success thereafter. If you have
any questions, do not hessitate to include them in your reply. All
correspondent mail response should be directed to my alternative email
address: edwardlee@safe-mail.net
Thanking you in antiscipation.
Best regards,
Barrister Edward Lee
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