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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: "Mrs. Melissa Pointer" <melissa_pointer123@msn.com>
Reply-To: melissapointer@cooltoad.com
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:45:00 +0000
Subject: Trust worthy person to help out
Dearly Beloved
It is by the grace of God that I received
Christ,having known the truth,I had no choice than to
do what is
lawful and right in the sight of God for eternal life
and in the sight
of man for witness of God & his mercies and glory upon
my life.
I am Mrs.Melissa Pointer the wife of Mr Harry
Pointer,my husband worked with theChevron/Texaco
in Kenya for twenty years before he died in the
year2001.We were
married for ten years without a child.My Husband died
after a brief
illness that lasted for only four
days.
Before his death we were both born again Christians.
Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a
child outside my
matrimonial home which the Bible is against.When my
late husband was
alive he deposited the sum of US$3.5M.(Three Million
Five
Hundred Thousand U.S.Dollars) with a Bank in
Europe.Presently,this
money is still with the Bank and the management
just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to
sign forthe release
of this money or rather issue a letter of
authorization to somebody to
receive it on my behalf if I can not come over.
Presently,I'm in a hospital in Kenya where I have been
undergoingtreatment for esophageal cancer.I have since
lost my ability
to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a
few weeks to
live.It is my last wish to see this money distributed
to charity
organizations anywhere in the World.Because relatives
and friends
have plundered somuch of my wealth since my
illness,I cannot live with the agony of entrusting
this huge
responsibility to any of them. Please,I beg you in the
name of God to
help me Stand and collect the Funds from the Bank.
I want a person that is God fearing that will use this
money to fund
churches,orphanages and widows propagating the word of
God and to
ensurethat the house of God is maintained.
The Bible made us to understandthat blessed is the
hand that giveth.I
took this decision because I don't have any child that
will inherit
this money and my husbandrelatives are not Christians
and I don't want
my husband's hard earned money to be misused by
unbelievers.I don't
want a situation where this money will be used in an
ungodly
manner.Hence the reason for taking thisbold decision.I
am not afraid of
death hence I know where I am going.I know that I am
going to be in the
bosom of the Lord.
Exodus{14 VS14}says that the lord will fight my case
and I shall
hold my peace.I don't need any telephone communication
in this regard
because of my soundless voice
and presence of my husband's relatives around me
always.I don't want
them to know about this
development. With God all things are possible.
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give youthe
contact of my
attorney who is in Europe as he will be the one to
assist you in laying
claims for this funds.
melissapointer@cooltoad
Your Sister in Christ,
Mrs.Melissa Pointer.
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