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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: "Hakeem Williams" <hakeemwilliams1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: contactme@ParsiMail.com
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:07:13 -0500
Subject: REPLY
Strictly confidential
Hello,
Re: collection of fund (US$42.5m) under
special arrangement.
Pardon me if I have offended you by contacting you for
such a big
transaction through an ordinary letter which makes it
suspicious
considering the type of fraud proposals moving around
the world
today. However, I was advised to explain this
transaction to you on
face
to face meeting.
I could not do this because of the situation in the
world today not
being sure of your reaction.
I am Mr Harry Williams, a consultant and broker from
London UK. I
was hired by a Japanese business man to broker an
investment deal
between himself and oil company in Venezuela. This
deal was executed in
January 1997 and matured for termination in 2001. On
maturity, the
Japanese businessman and the oil firm decided to
terminate the
investment in cash to avoid payment of investment tax
which amounted
to several millions of U.S dollars to the America
internal
revenue service (IRS). A special arrangement was made
between a top
Japanese banker working with Japanese bank in New
York, the oil company
and the businessman to terminate the investment in
cash payment under a
fictitious name with an arrangement to change it
latter
with a power of attorney which they prepared and
handed over to the top
banker. I was directly involved, well paid and
mandated to organize and
carry out the deal. All the cash was withdrawn in
august 2001 and
transported to Europe by direct bank vault to vault
delivering to a private diplomatic storage in Europe
for safe keeping
pending the collection. The real content of the boxes
were not
declared to the storage as it was delivered as
personal family treasure
and
diamonds. The code for the storage, secret codes for
the opening of the
boxes and its keys were all handed over to me.
Mr. Takashi the New York business man was planning to
go to Europe by
mid of November 2001 with me for the collection when
the unexpected
happened in September 11th attack on the twin tower
which claim his
life and that of the top banker. This left me
devastated and confused
as I have not yet handed over the deposit details to
the owner and the
power
of attorney prepared fore the change which was signed
was still with
the banker in his office which was also lost. It was
agreed with the
storage that the consignment would be collect on or
before 12 months
from the date of delivery. Since due date the
diplomatic
storage manager has been calling me to bring or tell
the owner to come
over for collection.
My friend, since then I have been looking for any
reliable person
to collect these consignment under special and well
negotiated
arrangement until I got your email contact.
All the needed secret code and identification and
collection are all
with me. Be rest assured that this transaction has
been well organized,
100% safe, legal, risk free and should be kept very
confidential.
Please, contact me for the way forward in this
transaction.If you think we can do this together in trust.
Reach me with your personal data as follows.
1. Your phone and fax numbers.
2. Your physical address both corperate and
residential
3. Age, sex and marital status.
4. Position and name of office.
Expecting to hear from you soon.
Regards,
Mr Harry Williams.
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