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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: "Ethel Gnassingbe" <ethel1981@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:10:55 +0000
Subject: Yours Assistance is Needed.
ATTENTION:
Dear friend,
It is my utmost pleasure to send you this confidential message. In my seach
for a reliable business patner overseas, I got your contact in the internet
and was impressed with your profile hence my interest in do business with
you.
I am Ethel Gnassingbe the daughter of the late president Gnassingbe Eyadema
President of Lomé Republic of Togo West Africa,who died on the 5th Feb,
2005.
Since the death of my father,my mother and i find things difficult because
my mother was the fifth wife of the late president Gnassingbe Eyadema which
is my
father.After his death, the country got an interim government led by Mr.
Faure Gnassingbe, the son of our late president, he succeeded his father as
president
of our country Lomé-Togo.
Mr Faure Gnassingbe mother was the first wife of my father and that gave
him the oppurtunity to be elected as the president of Lomé Republic of Togo
West Africa.
Because my mother was not well married with my father they were on contract
marriage.so it happens that we could not able to claim any of my father
property there in lome togo.Due to the contract marriage my mother had with
my father so the family drove my mother out of the house saying that she was
not recognised as a wife because the marriage was not accepted by the
menbers of the family so we had to come down here to Ghana to seek
political asylum.
Upon my Father brutal assassination, I discovered some deposit certificates
from his study and escaped to Accra Ghana. On our arrival in Ghana, armed
with these deposit certificates,Ethel and I have been able to trace this
Bank and establish the existence of this deposit as well asclaim ownership
of this consignment.
I am writing to you to seek for your confidential assistance to transfer
this cash worth US$28.1 millions into your personal account overseas for
investment purposes. This money was meant for the purchase of arms and
armunition in the country before this incident happened,
Because of my status here as a refugee, I will not be able to transfer this
money overseas in my name that is why I am contacting you for assistance
to enable us move this money to your country and possibly assist us to
invest it.
I rely on your decision but most importantly I appeal for strict
confidentiality on this transaction because of the nature of this business
and our family name. We have agreed to give you 30% of this money as a
compensation for your assistance and 5% for any expenditure you may incure
in the course of this transaction. We have also mapped out 5% for arranging
our travelling cost.
Hopefully awaiting for your considerate positive response to enable us
proced in earnest towards concluding the transfer of this fund.
You can contact me immediately through my E-mail address as soon as you
receive this mail,ethel_gnassingbe10@yahoo.com
Please treat this message confidentially and you can go through the
websites. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4303123.st
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/830774.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4294565.stm
=http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=13402&Cr=Togo&Cr1
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-02-12-voa11.cfm
May God Bless You.
Yours Faithfully.
Ethel Gnassingbe.
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