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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: "Issa Mohamed" <issamohamed@msn.com>
Reply-To: issa_mohamed09@yahoo.ca
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:08:54 +0000
Subject: GREETINGS
GREETINGS
With the hope that you are okay and doing fine, l am contacting you for
business transaction. This proposal could be strange but please give it
some attention.
My name is Issa Mohamed I live in Ivory Coast in West Africa. I have
inherited the sum of USD$16,800,000.00 (Sixteen Million, Eight Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) from my late parents. But l am faced with a
problem. It is in respect of this problem that l am contacting you.
On the banks documents for the next of kin, my late father appended a clause
stating that: I the next of kin, must attain the age of 35 years, before
taking full control of the bank account; But, in the event of war or natural
disasters in Ivory Coast, the bank should honour a transfer request from me
which must be for the safety of the funds; And in this case, I must have an
investment manager, my investment manager must not be an African; my
investment manager must be a customer of the bank with a good financial
record; and the money should not be transferred to any African country.
I am only 21years old now, but Ivory Coast is not a safe country at this
time because of the war. So I want the bank to transfer my money out of
Ivory Coast to a safe country, but the bank is insisting that l fulfil the
conditions put down by my late father. I know the bank is only being
businesslike, because there is no bank in the world that would encourage a
customer to close his or her bank account. This is actually the reason why
l am writing you. I know you are not a customer of the bank and you do not
have an account with the bank, but all that can be arranged. So please I
would like you to become my investment manager, because having an investment
manager is the condition the bank insist l have to meet before they would
agree to transfer my money. When you become my investment manager, l would
instruct the bank to transfer my money to your country, so that you can help
me invest the money wisely.
Please I am expecting your response. I am willing to give you 5% of the
total money for your assistance.
My regards,
Issa Mohamed
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