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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: "Steve Allen" <steveallen3001@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:38:56 +0000
Subject: Please reply back its important
My name is Steve Allen, and i am a civil servant working under the
Government of the federal Republic or Benin West Africa.I am emailing you in
confidence and i want you to keep this matter confidential and also keep it
to yourself, either you are interested or not even though this is the most
foolish way to contact someone but i still want to give it a try and to
know there is someone out there that i can put my trust in.
To cut the long story short.Three years ago, i have served under a
foriegn engineer as his co-engineer, and we both executed contracts for the
the government.My superior is from your country and was very influential in
my country and knew a lot of people.He had made a good name in my country
and was well recognised.As his assistant, i had much to gain from him.
But 3years ago he was traveling with his family when he had an auto
crash,where they all lost their lifes.As a good friend and a co-worker,we
both used to work together and we both stay in the same hotel and also share
the same flat any time we usually traveled.
We where on a contract programme when he lost his life, since he had no
family trace or background, some of his items where taken by the government
of Benin till someone comes around and claims it.
My Superior (mr Jamie Watson) who is a very influential person and very
financially stable.One of the days where i was in the flat where we both
stayed when he was still alive,i took a work to his room to retreve some
files we both worked on,and honestly during my curious research i found a
box in his room and i couldnt just let go i had to take a pick in the box.
What i saw came as a shock to me and i couldnt just let my eyes off it.I
discovered Mr watson had left a sum of (10 million US dollars in cash)in his
bedroom.I first wondered and was scared what the money was doing there and
didnt know what to do.
I first thought of taking it in to the special authorities, but then i
thought all of mr Jamie's item have been sent over to the government and now
in Government costody.So i decided to hide the money somewhere else to see
if any alarm will be raised about the where abouts of the money.But since
nobody cared to know what happened to the money.
I packaged it in a traveling luggage and a box.I took over to a security
company that ships and take care of luggages for international dignitaries
and also take care packages belonging to diplomates.
This is where i need your help, i cant do this on my own.I need your help
and trust to ship this luggages out of here, all i will need from you is to
retrieve the luggages for me from the security company and act as the
custodian of the luggages.I will be providing to you the security sort codes
of the luggages so you can be able to have access to it and also for the
security company to release the luggages to you and ship it over to you.All
i need to do is provide to you the sort codes and documents for you to send
to the company and they will ship it over to you.
PLease let me know if you are willing to help in this matter and if not i
can understand, and also i have proof to show about the money and this is
not a joke of any sort.it is real.PLease reply back if you are willing to
help and i tell you.You wont ever reget you did.Please keep this in
confidence and only to urself.
Hear from you soon.
Steve Allen
NB.
Please if you do not feel comfortable about this email and you would like me
to explain better please do reply me.I WILL REALLY BE HAPPY TO EXPLAIN
BETTER...
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