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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: "James Duke" <allancross3@msn.com>
Reply-To: roy_david8@sify.com
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:16:02 +0000
Subject: I await your response......
Dear Sir/Madam,
Firstly, let me apologize for infringing into your privacy. This is
necessary as I hope to present a proposal to you, which I know, would
be of
immense benefit to you and me. I am very much aware that you might have
come
across this kind of preposition, as a lot of scandalous
misrepresentation,
has been perpetuated by my government in collaboration with other
foreign
government to curb and frustrate the effort of people like myself who
are
trying to better the life of their families.
My name is Mr.David Roy and I am the protocol officer to the first
Lady
Mrs. Stella Obasanjo the wife of the immediate president federal
republic of
Nigeria GENERAL OLUSEGUN OBASANJO who died on the 23rd of October 2005
after
a surgery at the Molding clinic of cosmetic surgery of Marbella in
Spain.
Actually, I was at present with the late first lady (MRS STELLA
OBASANJO)
when she deposited the sum of U.S$ 25.5m in a financier security
company's
vault in Spain before she went for a cosmetic surgery that led to her
death.
As a Civil servants and a personal assistant/protocol officer to the
late
first Lady, I am well monitored in the sense that I'm not allowed to
travel
out of the country at my own free will and also cannot operate a
foreign
account and my account are known to the government etc. For this reason
I
need an outsider who will front for me and make claims to this fund,
bearing
in mind that I have the original copies of all the relevant documents
about
the deposit including the keys to the box and I intend to use my
position to
make all the necessary documentation that will be needed from you for
the
claim of the box. I want to assure you that this transaction is a 100%
risk
free and confidential.
What I need you to do for now is to present yourself as a business
associate
to Late Mrs. Stella Obasanjo and reclaim the funds from the security
company, I will use my office to prepare an invoice indicating some
business
transaction between you and the first lady amounting to that and I will
also
write a letter instructing the security company to release the deposit
to
you once you present the invoice and the certificate of the deposit to
the
security company including the keys to the box. In this case, they will
consult my office for verification and fortunately, I signed as a
witness
when the deposit agreement was signed between Late Mrs. Obasanjo and
the
security company.
The good thing is that i am working with an insider in the security
company
in Spain who is a senior director of the company and he is in this DEAL
with
me, I will give his telephone number to you in Spain once I hear from
you.
If you are willing to assist me to reclaim this fund, I am willing to
give
you 30% of the total sum of U.S$ 25.5m once we reclaim the deposit from
the
security company, and I will make arrangement to come over to your
country
to receive my share. I anticipate the whole transaction will take about
10
working days to complete once we write an official application to the
security company for the release of the deposit to you. I have called
the
security company in Spain and told them that there was a letter of
instruction Mrs. Obasanjo wrote before her death stating the transfer
of the
deposit to a business associate.
I decided to communicate this to you through your e-mail because I know
it
is very confidential and secure. Due to the nature of this transaction
I beg
you to maintain absolute confidentiality at all levels.
You can view all the information from the Internet website below:
http://nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=5722&z=10
Expecting your immediate response
Thanks.
Your Faithfully
Mr. David Roy
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