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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: "Mr.William McDonald" <willymcdonald_002@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: w_mcdonald@excite.com
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:10:21 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY!!!
Good Day,
Let me start by introducing myself,My name is Williams Mcdonald and I own a
company that sells Chinese and African textile and fabric material in Hong
kong,I am looking for a trustworthy representative in USA /Canada that can
help as a link between me and my client over there.I would like to know if
you are interested to work from home for us ACTEXO TEXTILE LIMITED needs a
book-keeper or representative in the states,so I want to know if you will
like to work on line from home and get paid weekly without leaving or
affecting your present job? I presently run a textile and fabrics firm in
Hong Kong and we need someone to work for the company as a
representative/book keeper in Canada/USA.
My company produces various clothing materials, batiks, assorted fabrics
and traditional costumes.We have clients we supply weekly in the states and
my clients make payments for our supplies every week in form of money
orders or cashiers check which are not readily cashable outside the US or
Canada,so we need someone in the States/Canada to
work as our representative and assist us in processing the payments from our
clients and I will pay him/her a weekly
wage, by percentage.
All you need to do is receive this payment from our clients in the States or
Canada and get it cashed in your bank then deduct your 10% and forward the
balance to the company down here via money gram or western union money
transfer.The main reason why the funds cannot be cashed down here is that it
would take 24-28 days for a a US money order to pass through the bank here
an d that would tie down my capital and not make business move fast as i
Expected,but a US money order presented to the bank in the US would clear
latest within 48hrs and the person that used to help me cash the money
orders before that is my former representative has moved to Germany with his
family.
Our payments will be issued out in your name and you get them cashed in your
bank, deduct your 10% of the initial capital and forward the balance to the
company by money transfer.
So all I need is to forward your information to our
numerous clients in the states or Canada and they will contact you before
they issue payment in form of money order or cheques then send it via
courier or
mail to you.
If accepted I will need your full name, address and phone number so we can
send it to our clients and they will start making payments to you as the
company representative in the states.
BEFORE OUR CLIENTS COMMENCE PAYMENTS,YOU WOULD HAVE TO REPLY WITH AN
ACCEPTANCE LETTER AND A SCANNED COPY OF YOUR VALID IDENTIFICATION ATTACHED
TO IT.
AS SOON AS WE CONFIRM ANY PAYMENT COMING TO YOU,I WILL LET YOU KNOW AND I
WILL GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION TO SEND FUNDS TO THE COMPANY VIA MONEYGRAM OR
WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER.
NB:Please reply me via my alternative email:
w_mcdonald@excite.com
Thanks and I await your sooner response.
Williams Mcdonald
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