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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: "John Obinna" <johnobinna@msn.com>
Reply-To: barrjohn_obinna1@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:11:23 +0000
Subject: For your personal attention
My Dear
INTRODUCTION: My name is John Obinna, a legal practitioner and I have been
contracted by Mr. Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor (hereinafter shall be
referred to as my client), former President of Liberia and presently on
asylum in Cross River State of Nigeria. In contacting you, I have the
endorsement and instruction of the aforementioned Charles Taylor, and his
Family to present this matter to you “personally” under caution of same in
my capacity to provide my professional services to the same.
PURPOSE OF CONTACTING YOU: Believing that you can be fully trusted, Mr.
Taylor has directed that I reach/contact you personally in his behalf, and
seek your consent and participation in the investment of part of his life
savings, having stepped down from his former position. Owing to his Asylum
status, it has become extremely impossible for my client to invest his life
savings himself, partly as not to attract attention to himself, but more
importantly because of restrictions of the United Nation, particularly, the
U.S President who has been insisting that the Nigerian government (where he
is in asylum) should hand him over to the International War Crime Tribunal
for war crime prosecution.
In order to avoid being caught unawares, he has therefore instructed that I
seek your consent and partnership in re-profiling his funds amounting to
US$9,000,000.00 (Nine Million U.S Dollars) only. With the intention to hand
over all his financial concerns to his son later, my client intends to have
the money invested in his son’s interest/name, with a view to giving the
rest of the family something to hope on in future, in case the Nigerian
government accedes to the pressure of handing him over to the International
War Crime Tribunal.
DETAILS OF THE FUND: In his instruction, my client has earmarked the sum of
US$9 Million for a preliminary investment. The fund is part of his personal
savings deposited in a finance firm outside Liberia and he intends to see
the investment begin before he can put in more funds. Contrary to
misinterpretations, the actual reason why he delayed his exit from Liberia
was to ensure that all his savings were transferred.
YOUR ROLE: In view of his present constraints as detailed above, you will be
needed to represent the family and stand as the beneficiary of the fund and
I will re-profile the funds with your name. The need to seek for a neutral
person not connected whatsoever with his family is to foreclose any
possibility of tracing or having knowledge that the fund was deposited by
him, otherwise it shall be confiscated. Please understand that the
transaction is very legitimate and shall be completed under a transparent
arrangement, requiring you to visit the firm where the fund is deposited for
on the sight certification and instant retrieval.
YOUR SETTLEMENT & COMMISSION: As it were, my client does not intend to share
this money out right with you. Rather, upon your acceptance and retrieval of
the fund, you will be allowed to retain 10% of the total sum to serve as
your commission/processing expenses fees. The balance shall be invested into
Real Estate and Landed property, or as may be wisely suggested by you. You
will handle the investment procedure, and engage your own staff for each of
the procedures. You will be ceded 30% stake of every profit accruing in such
investment. Details of this and every other thing including the name of the
firm, country and deposit documents of the fund (which I cannot do now for
security reasons) shall be provided upon your positive response.
Please note that this process must be completed within a short period of
time. I will like to thank you in advance of your understanding, while
waiting for your urgent response. If I do not read from you in a short time
, I will take it that you don’t have the interest. All the same, I want to
believe that we can count on you. Please reply me via my secured email
address only: barrjohn_obinna@yahoo.com
Yours in service,
Barr. John Obinna
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