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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: "Franco Aristide" <mcc11_2005@msn.com>
Reply-To: mcc11_2005@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:30:16 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY
Good day,
My mail may seem a little confusing considering the fact that we have
not each other met before. Please understand that this is the only mean
through which i can get in touch with you, as i wish to discuss something
very
personal.
My name is Franco Aristide, i am the brother to the past President of
Haiti, (Jean Bertrand Aristide) who is now presently on exile. Several
months
ago in the year 2004, my brother's political opponents in our country,
master-minded and led a revolution to overthrow my brother's regime.
There was so much violence and killings during that time, with various
attempt to kill my brother and members of his family. Fortunately for us we
managed
to escape out of the country. I left the country with some members of my
family through the atlantic ocean with a ship that headed towards Mauritania
to Central Africa. I was lucky to escape from the violence in Haiti with
my wife and children and a few other family members and we are presently
in political assylum here in Central africa republic.
Some weeks before their attack, i had the vision that there would be a
political unrest in the country would get out of hand, so i then acted fast
to sell out a few of my propeties that i could sell out as at that
time. I gathered all the money that i had in my possession which amounted to
a
total of ($8.5 million and some fractions in US dollars). I was not able to
transfer or move the money out of the country because of the unrest and
instability that was everywhere, so i alternatively coded and packaged
all the money to a safer place in the city of Port-de-Piax, where i hid it
in a very safe place and since then the money has been safe there, nobody is
aware of the existence of this money. It was from the city Port-de-Piax that
i was able to leave the country with my wife, children and some other lucky
members of our family.
I need your assistance and cooperation to help me receive and keep this
money safe, because i am now making perfect arrangments to move this
money out of there Haiti to Europe, London, Germany or Amsterdam, for future
investments and safe keeping. So i need you to assist me recieve the money
when it
arrives its destination country. I need to invest this money in any good
type of business that you can assist me with and equally start a quiet
and new life in your country.
This money is all i have left to revive my family. My entire family
have been set back as a result of the past and so i despirately need to
start planning their future again. Please do let me know if you can work
with me, so that i can give you more details on my arrangements. I urgently
await your e-mail.
Best Regards
FRANCO ARISTIDE
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