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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: "ogeziem ziem" <ogeziem@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:18:13 +0000
Subject: very confidential.
>From The Desk Of Mr Oge Ziem.
Accra Ghana.
Please for confidential reason, reply to private mail
box;(accountant_ogeziem_accraghana@yahoo.com)
Firstly, I am Mr Oge ziem a senior accountant in one of the Africa Petroleum
Oil Company here in Ghana. I humbly wish to seek your personal assistance in
this urgent transfer transaction. Although we have not met before but i
believe that business transaction is game of trust.
I and my second stroke a deal this febuary 2005 in our company where both of
us are working. This deal was stroke with one Mr Robert Hook who executed
contract with our company. Me and my second overestimated the contract bill,
after the contract was done and the contractor paid, we realise from the the
overestimated bill to the tune of (fifteen point five million united states
of America Dollars) $15.5m usd.
Due to we are still serving in the company and don't have a foreign account
where this money will be kept for security reasons, we arranged with Mr Hook
the contractor to assist us and keep this money in one of his account in
Europe untill we resigned from the company by the end this year. The gentle
and kind man aggreed and kept the money for us in his account. On the 3rd of
july 2005 he travel to London with his family on a holiday, unfortunately he
was involved with his wife and their only son in the july 7th London bomb
blast that took their lives and co passengers.
Since then we are making a solid arrangenment on how to get our money out
from the bank before it is too late. Now we have finalised on the
arrangenment but we needed a reliable and honest person that can provide
another foreign account where the bank can retransfer the money. For
providing this account and keeping the money, we aggreed to give you 25% of
the total sum for your great assistance. If you are interested in this
transaction, please contact me via email for more details. Also due to the
nature of this transaction, we will appreciate it to be kept very
confidential.
Thanks and will be expecting your urgent response for immediate processing
of the transfer. We assured you that this transaction will be executed under
legal and legitimate way.
Your's Truly,
Mr Oge Ziem.
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