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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: "Mohamed Tanko" <tmohamed_44@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jdavid_01@uymail.com
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:25:03 -0500
Subject: fram mr.Tanko.
Sir,
This letter will definitely come to you as a surprise knowing that we do not
know each other before and have not had any previous encounter in the past.
My name is Mr. Mohamed Tanko the personal assistance to the first lady of
Federal Republic of Nigeria Late Chief Mrs. Stella Obasanjo. Before her
sudden death in Marbella hospital in Malaga Spain , we made several over
seas trips and in most of those trips Million of Dollars are carried out in
Cash and deposited in Security Companies in Europe for the use the first
lady and her family each time they travel.
Due to the sudden death of the first lady caused by complications from a
cosmetic surgery, she did not have time to reconcile most business
transactions with her family especially her husband.
In the last trip we made, we had deposited a total of $9.7 mill ion in a
security company in Spain as family valuables before she went in for the
surgery that took her life that day. When we had that she is dead I quickly
went to the security company and demanded the certificate of deposit before
the news of her death was made public and it was given to me without any
questions as the security company officials recognized that I was the only
person with her during the time of deposit.
Now I am looking for a foreign partner that will come and claim the
consignment and keep the money safe in his foreign account since I can not
operate a foreign account being a civil servant and also due to the fact
that I am still working with the presidency.
President Obasanjo or any of his family members can not lay claim on this
money as there is no next of kin quoted at the time of the deposit. I am the
only person that has the certificate of deposit and the address of the
security company where this money was kept since they use different security
companies each time we make such trips and I presume that her family will
have the documents relating to other deposits made in the past except this
one.
This transaction is 100% safe as the family can not come to lay this claim
as they have nothing to prove any thing regarding the deposit. If you are
interested, please contact me ASAP so that I will tell you how we will
proceed.
Remember that all regarding this must be kept confidential. You may read
about her death by logging in to
http://allafrica.com/stories/200510240984.html
Awaiting your response.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Mohamed Tanko.
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