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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: "kelly crawford" <kelly_crawford07@msn.com>
Reply-To: kellycrawford@myway.com
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:22:56 +0000
Subject: Hello.
Dear Friend,
How are you and your family today? I hope that you are all okay? I found
information about you and decided to contact you for an important
assistance. I am Kelly Crawford a citizen of Zimbabwe, but I am contacting
from a nebhioring country here in WEST AFRICA where I am now sicking
political asylum. I am the only son of Mac Crawford, a wealthy farmer and
senior politician with the opposition political party in my country,
Movement for Democratic Change [MDC]. Our wicked President murdered my
father; I fled my country because I have become his next target to
eliminate.
My father was a fighter for Justice and a moving force in the MDC, a party
wanting to end the several years of brutal dictatorship government of
President Robert Mug Abe’s. You will read more stories about President Mug
Abe’s brutal acts by visiting these web sites;
(1)http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/jan-june00/zimbabwe_4-21a.html
(2) http://www.rte.ie/news/2000/0418/zimbabwe.html
My father was accused of Treason and also assisting the White farmers in
fighting the overnment. Few weeks after his arrest, he was reported dead.
The government claimed he died of heart attack and his body was never seen
for proper autopsy, they buried him in the government cemetery. My father's
associate Mr. Martin Olds a White farmer from Britain assisted me in
fighting my father's death through the Court and media;the government saw
us as a big treat to them and decided to eliminate us. Mr. Olds was attacked
and murdered in his house, but fortunately, before they came looking for me,
I received the news and I had to flee through the border to near by country
in WEST AFRICA to save my life. My arrival here still remains like a
miracle to me. Here,is my reasons for contacting you, I am having a huge sum
of money total sum of $5,000,000.00 ( five million American
Dollars)presently lodge in an excrow account with a Bank in London. My
father’s business, farms and banks account were seized by the government
before his arrest and murder.
He told me everything concerning the funds while he was still in detention.
I need your assistance in securing the funds there in your country, so that
I can arrange on how to come
over to your country to invest with the fund I am willing to offer you 20%
of the 5,000,000. (five million American Dollars) for your assistance.
I am ready to make you the beneficairy of the fund so that you can transfer
the fund to your home country and after that i will come over to your
country for investment and also to start a new life. I would have done this
my self but right now i am in asylum in a near by country and the
government must not know about this fund.
Please, let me know if you can assist me, so that I can give you more
details on how we shall proceed.
As I wait for your urgent response.
please treat this information as top secret.
Regards
Kelly Crawford.
N:B PLS REPLIES TO MY EMAIL ADDRESS: kellycrawford@myway.com
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