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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. Gloria mangena" <gloriamangena@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mangenafamilys@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:05:32 +0000
Subject: DEPORTED BY YOUR COUNTRY, NEED YOUR HELP
MRS. GLORIA MANGENA
TEL:+ 84 680 5151
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
Dear Sir,
Your country has been my desirable country for investment since after my
late husband and I visited the country for the first time during bilateral
trade inauguration meeting held in 1992, between the two counties. My late
husband was then a cabinet member and Economic adviser to president of my
country, President Ahmed Tijan Kaba of Sierra Leone.
My name is Mrs. Gloria Mangena, the wife of Dr. Buba Mangena who passed away
after a prolonged illness caused by an assassination attack to kill him by
some rebel group of a former Junta, Major Johnny Paul Koroma, who took over
power from an elected Government of President Ahmed Tijan Kaba. After the
over thrown of President Kaba, my husband lead the campaign against the
military president of Paul Koroma to the ECOMUG that came and took over
power from the military Government to hand over power back to the elected
president of AHMED KABA. Because of this, several attempts were made to kill
him without success but he was attacked on one occasion where he sustained a
permanent injury that he suffered till death.
Since after his death, this group has been trying to wipe away his family
that forced me to send our younger son and daughter outside the country to
finish their studies. As situation gets worse, I decided to gather all my
family’s wealth with my elder son Oliver, sell all our properties most of
all our Diamond Field to fly out of the country for our life and to invest
these funds in your country. Because it is very difficult to transfer huge
amount of money out from my country and to avoid the new government not to
seize these money from us, since my late husband had been involved with the
government as adviser and Cabinet member, we used the services of a Finance
Company to box the money of sum total US$36.2Million (THIRTY SIX MILLION TWO
HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) and cargo it as personal Valuable to
your country.
Unfortunately we were refused entry into your country by your immigration
for they said that the new government has canceled the diplomatic passport
that we were using. Now we are writing you from South Africa where we were
been deported to and as our papers were invalid, they took us to their
Refugee Camp to reside here under the status of Asylum seekers (Refugees).
Now our luggages are still with the Customs, here South Africa Customs
demands to open the boxes if they are to release it for us to enter into
South Africa when we went to clear them. My fear is that, there will
discover that it is money that are in the boxes and seize it. So I forward
an application to them not to tamper with the box because it is not meant to
come into South Africa but belong to our Foreign Partner who will come down
here to clear it and cargo to your country, so I need you to come and pose
before the customs as my foreign partner to get the consignment out from the
customs. Beside that my two boxes was tagged non-inspection because of the
diplomatic immunities accorded to our passports.
So it is in respect of this situation that I am seeking for your assistance
to represent us as our foreign partner to come and retrieve this consignment
from the customs and send it to your country for proper investment of the
money with you as partner. Presently we are preparing our traveling document
so that we could travel together with you.
We have decided that you will be compensate with 18% of the total sum for
your personal use, for your acceptance to assist us and also helped us to
invest and form partnership with us in all our investments in your country.
I am looking forward for your urgent response if you are interested to
assist us. Contact OLIVER my son or myself with Tel: +27 846805151 or Email
us for more information, if you are ready and interested to assist me to
retrieve this consignment to send to your country.
Thanking you in anticipation of your kind and favorable response.
Best Regards,
Mrs. Gloria Mangena.
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