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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: "mariam abacha" <mariam4444kh@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:13:43 +0000
Subject: ASSISTANCE.
CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Sir,
Good day and compliments. This letter will definitely come
to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you to take the
time to go through it carefully as the decision you make
will go off a long way to determine the future and
continued existence of the entire members of my family.
Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr.(Mrs.)
Mariam Abacha, the wife of the late head of state and
commander in chief of the armed forces of the federal
republic of Nigeria who died on the 8th of June 1998.
My ordeal started immediately after my husband?s death on
the morning of 8th June 1998, and the subsequent take over
of government by the last administration. The present
democratic government is determined to portray all the good
work of my late husband in a bad light and have gone as far
as confiscating all my late husband?s assets, properties,
freezing our accounts both within and outside Nigeria. As I
am writing this letter to you, my son Mohammed Abacha is
undergoing questioning with the government. All these
measures taken by past/present government is just to gain
international recognition.
I and the entire members of my family have been held
incommunicado since the death of my husband, hence I seek
your indulgence to assist us in securing these funds. We
are not allowed to see or discuss with anybody. Few
occasions I have tried traveling abroad through alternative
means all failed.
It is in view of this I have mandated DR.Ibrahim Turaki,
who has been assisting the family to run around on so many
issues to act on behalf of the family concerning the
substance of this letter. He has the full power of attorney
to execute this transaction with you.
My late husband had/has Twenty Five Million USD ($25,000,000.00)
specially preserved and well packed in trunk a boxe of which
only my husband and I knew about. It is packed in such a
way to forestall just anybody having access to it. It is
this sum that I seek your assistance to get out of Nigeria
as soon as possible before the present civilian government
finds out about it and confiscate it just like they have
done to all our assets.
I implore you to please give consideration to my
predicament and help a widow in need.
May Allah show you mercy as you do so,
Your faithfully,
Dr (Mrs.) Mariam Abacha (M.O.N)
N/B: Please contact Dr.Ibrahim Turaki on this e-mail
address:(CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Sir,
Good day and compliments. This letter will definitely come
to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you to take the
time to go through it carefully as the decision you make
will go off a long way to determine the future and
continued existence of the entire members of my family.
Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr. (Mrs.)
Mariam Abacha, the wife of the late head of state and
commander in chief of the armed forces of the federal
republic of Nigeria who died on the 8th of June 1998.
My ordeal started immediately after my husband?s death on
the morning of 8th June 1998, and the subsequent take over
of government by the last administration. The present
democratic government is determined to portray all the good
work of my late husband in a bad light and have gone as far
as confiscating all my late husband?s assets, properties,
freezing our accounts both within and outside Nigeria. As I
am writing this letter to you, my son Mohammed Abacha is
undergoing questioning with the government. All these
measures taken by past/present government is just to gain
international recognition.
I and the entire members of my family have been held
incommunicado since the death of my husband, hence I seek
your indulgence to assist us in securing these funds. We
are not allowed to see or discuss with anybody. Few
occasions I have tried traveling abroad through alternative
means all failed.
It is in view of this I have mandated DR.Ibrahim Turaki,
who has been assisting the family to run around on so many
issues to act on behalf of the family concerning the
substance of this letter. He has the full power of attorney
to execute this transaction with you.
My late husband had/has Twenty Five Million USD ($25,000,000.00)
specially preserved and well packed in a trunk boxe of which
only my husband and I knew about. It is packed in such a
way to forestall just anybody having access to it. It is
this sum that I seek your assistance to get out of Nigeria
as soon as possible before the present civilian government
finds out about it and confiscate it just like they have
done to all our assets.
I implore you to please give consideration to my
predicament and help a widow in need.
May Allah show you mercy as you do so,
Your faithfully,
Dr (Mrs.) Mariam Abacha (M.O.N)
N/B: Please contact Dr.Ibrahim Turaki on this e-mail
address:(bar_turakiibrahimesq@o2.pl) for further
briefing and modalities.
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