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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: "FRANCIS Ben" <francisben202@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: francben202@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:45:17 +0000
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE
Attn: My Dear,
On behalf of our family i contact you.My name, MR.FRANCIS Ben, the eldest
son of Late Dr. ENAGUA BEN, of Zimbabwe.This letter might come as a surprise
to you about where I got your contact address and how I knew you. I got your
address from my former secretary and i decided to contact you for an
assistant, which
I do hope you will take this matter into consideration.During the current
war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporters of our President
Robert Mugabe to claim all the
white-owned farms for his party members and his followers, he ordered all
white farmers to surrender all their farms to his party members and his
followers.
My father was one of the biggest farmers in our country and because he
strongly opposed Mugabe's
ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded my father's farm and burnt everything in
the farm, killing my father and made away with a lot of items in my father's
farm.Before his death, my father had deposited with one Security Company in
Holand, the sum of US.DOLAR.10.5 (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars). This was money he planned to use in buying new machinery
and to set up a new farm in Swaziland. After the death of my father,l
decidedto escape for security reasons to BENIN Republic because of
continued harassment from Mugabe and his supporters.
As the senior man in the Family,considering the kind of surfring and an
endless hardship our entire family is passing through since his death.
Therefore i now made up my mind to search for contacts of assistace. Really
i contacted you to assist me in securing this money for a lucrative
investment in your country to help my entire family,on trust believing that
u will not
let me down finally.The fund has been is in the security company in Europe
just for safe keeping although the courier comapany were not aware of the
content of the case because it was convey as personal valuable goods,I have
all documents with me as of when it was deposited in a Security Vault for
safe keeping.
Presently i am already in Benin, while I need to seek political asylum to
secure my staying in this country as we are not allowed to operate any bank
account within Benin republic.For your role in this transaction, me and my
family have agreed to offer you 25%of the total sum for your assistance, 5%
will be set out for any expenses that may be incurred tax as your government
may require in the course of this transaction and 70% will be remained for
us(me and my family) to invest in your country.
All I want you to do is to help me secure this money into your personal bank
account and equally help me in investing this money into a lucrative
business in your country for my family. I asure you of a 100% risk free
and legal transaction.I have perfected arrangements with the Trust
Company concerned and has been assured of a risk free and safe operation.
What I demand from you now is to arrange to visit the Finance Company where
this money is being deposited and claim it as the bona-fide owner onbehalf
of our family in Europe.
As you respond to me for more informations. please forward your phone and
fax numbers for easier comunication.Thanks and God bless.
Best Regards,
MR.FRANCIS Ben.
+229 97 645883
E-mail:francben202@yahoo.fr
For the family.
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