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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: "Paul David" <pdvid22@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dav_paul@walla.com
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:06:43 +0000
Subject: Please Reply.
Dear Beloved One.
Thank you for giving me your time;Please be patient and read my email to
you,this letter might come as a surprise to you,and you could be wondering
where I got your contact. I got your address through a personal search on
the internet for someone relaible and trustworthy,so i decided to contact
you for an assistant, which I do hope you will take your time to consider.
My name is Davidson Ben, the eldest son of Dr. ENAGUA BEN, from
Zimbabwe.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 in the incident and made
away with a lot of items in my father's farm. Before my father's death,he
had made deposite with a Security Company in Europe,the sum of US$12.5
(Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).He intended to
use the money in buying new machinery and to set up a new farm in Swaziland.
After the death of my father,l decided to escape with my other siblings to
another country because of continued harassment and threat from Mugabe and
his supporters,we could only get as far as the republic of Benin where we
are now seeking political refuge. As the eldest man in the Family, i have
been making contact with the company to see how i can make the claim without
going there but to no avail,i was told that the claim can only be made by me
or my father's representative in thier office. This is the reason why i
decided to contact you to assist us since I am not able to travel outside
this country particularly to Europe where the company is located.
I am seeking for your assistance to help us go to the security company as
our father's representative for the claims, For your role in this
transaction,my family and i have agreed to offer you 30% of the total sum
for your assistance, 5% will be set-aside for any expenses that may be
incurred in the course of this transaction and the remaining 65% will be for
my family and i to invest in any lucrative investment. All I want you to do
is to help me finish this transaction and at the same time help me to invest
some of our share of the money in a lucrative business in your country.
Please get back to me if you can be of assistance via my private email
address
(dav_paul@walla.com)or my phone number +229-9571-3752. for better discussion
or should
incase you have any questions you would like to ask,please feel free to
contact me
any time via Tel.or email.
Thanks and God bless as i will be looking forward to your swift and positive
response.
Best regards,
MR.Davidson Ben
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