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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: "florence kenan" <florence_kenan@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: florencekenan@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:18:59 +0000
Subject: LAST NOTIFICATION
Estate of Engr Walter Trevor.
Dear Beloved,
Please confirm your receipt of this mail because previous hard copy letters
have been sent through your mailing address but we did not get any response
from you. Not to worry, because even if it was intercepted in the course of
postage, no execution will be carried out without the endorsement of Rev.
Father Simon Loper and me the attorney for the
execution.
On-behalf of the Trustees and Executors of the Will of late of Engr. Walter
Trevor (ksm), I wish to notify you that you were listed as a beneficiary to
the bequest of the sum of US$ 7.3M [seven Million Three Hundred And
Thousand US Dollars] in the codicil and last testament of the deceased. The
late Walter Trevor until his death was a former Managing Director and
pioneer staff of a big construction company in China (TREVOTA)an later
invested in
poultry farm and grains. He established himself as a
wealthy farmer in Asia where he exported rice and other poultry products.
He was a very dedicated man and a great philantropist during his life time.
He involved himself in helping people by giving investable loans in
agriculture and other ventures.
Late Walter Trevor died on 9th December 2004 at the age of 78. He has since
been buried on the 23rd of December 2004. He was an American lived in Dubai
all through his active years but later move down to London due to long term
illness where he died in a specialist hospital.He was married
but without a child an lost his wife in 1986 due to breast cancer. He said
in his words as stated in his last testament that "it is my desired wish to
see that the poor and less privileged are given assistance by any means and
limit this token could go, especially Asia,
Africa and South America having seen it all myself. He therefore advised
that this amount be invested and the part of the proceeds be used in the
work of humanity" please if your going to use this money for another thing
eccept work of humanity. I hereby request that you forward your current
telephone number
for further discussion and your forwarding address to enable us file
necessary documents of claims at probate registry for the release of this
funds to you. Please note that this is real as no expenses will be demanded
from you but from the amount set aside as the probate expenses.
contact me if you do recive this message this time.
Best Regards
Florence Kenan (llb.Lon)
Estate of Trevor
florencekenan@yahoo.com
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