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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: "Freddy Jones" <freddyjones_8@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:22:27 +0000
Subject: Funds for investment
Sir/Madam,
My name is Mr Fred Jones ,chairman of contract award and monitoring
committee of the ministry of industry and international trade development
,my duty as empowered by the Mauritius government is to provide the basic
amenities, social recreational activities in urban and rural areas.
This program includes assistance to deprived local communities and to
co-ordinate projects and development at the national level.Furthermore,from
this projects were able to realize some reasonable amount of
u.s.$21.8(Twenty one million eight hundred thousand US. dollars only) as
commission from various contractors resulting from over invoicing of payment
receipts/vouchers hence all the necessary approvals has been completed.
These approved funds were packaged and dispatched through a security company
for onward delivery to its destination in Europe.The money was first
deposited into a security vault before we arrange for its movement to Europe
through diplomatic channel using decoy purporting that the fund belongs to
an expatriate/company.
As we are government officials, the oath of office does are not allowed us
to operate foreign bank account,hence we need you to stand as the
beneficiary and claim the fund on our behalf from the security company.
Presently I am now in Europe to search for a reliable person/company of high
integrity /dignity and one with conscience who will claim this fund on our
behalf as the beneficiary.
We have agreed to give you 35% of the total sum as commission for your
assistance/effort and we will use 65% to invest under your
recommendation/guide and go into joint venture business with you .
I would greatly appreciate your assistance and I look forward to your
response as soon as possible through this e mail address:fredjons@walla.com
Best regards,
Mr Fred Jones
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