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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: "charles akaugo" <charlesakaugo@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:49:18 +0000
Subject: please help me beloved one.......
>From charles nwama
Dear one,
I sincerely seek your assistance. My name is charles nwama
I am the son of late Mr mark nwama and we are indigenes of Sierra Leone
but based in NIGERIA. Until his death, my father was a very successful
businessman, he deals on international imports. He died of a heart failurein
November 2003. My problem now is that, my late father had a some money which
he lodged in a union bank plc here in nigeria ($16.5million dorllars), his
intension was to use
this money for an oversea investment.I want you to help me by claiming this
money from the bank, to your account as my late father's foreign business
pertner.I
will then come over to your country for my training and investment. I am
willing to offer you 35% of the money for your help. Please get back to
me for more details. Thank you.
please get back to my private email(charlesnwama@yahoo.co.uk)
charles nwama
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