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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: "thomson tapi" <thomsontapi01@msn.com>
Reply-To: thomsontapi@fsmail.net
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:43:58 +0000
Subject: From: Thomson Tapi
From: Thomson Tapi
03 BP 25687 Abidjan 03
Avenue 23 Rue 33 Barree Cocody
Cote D'Ivoir West Africa
Dearest,
Please permit me to inform you of my desire of going into relationship with
you, after asking God to direct me to a honest person who can help me out of
this condition, I have not review this to anyone accept you, due to it's
esteeming nature and I hope you are a trustworthy person I can build this
relationship with.
My name is Thomson Tapi from Ivory Coast an orphan since I lost my parents a
couple of years ago, My Father was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting
board before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of
their outings on a business trip.
My mother died when I was young and since then my father took me so special,
before my father died, he secretly called me and told me about the money he
deposited in security company here in Ivory Coast as an African craft (Art
work items) for exportation to his partner abroad, in tune of
(US$15,000,000.00 dollars) My father told me that he deposited this money
for importation of cocoa processing machine.
Please I need your help to retrieve this money as Art work items out of this
country to your account for safe keeping so that it will be secured for my
future in your country as I did not have any one to call parents or brother/
sister here.
Note that the security company has no idea what the content of the box is
because my father did not discloses it to them, my father gave me the
document of this deposit , a key to the box and a copy of picture which he
took the box where the total money is before depositing it to the company.
You will help me to come over to your country for my future and I don't have
anyone here to trust my with life. Note I will like to invest this money in
your country for my bright future I will give you 30% while 70% will be for
me as my inheritance and for the investment purpose.
I will like you to keep this transaction confidential to avoid enemies of
progress until it comes into your account and for the safety of this money.
Understand that I will want your presence here for the conclusion of this
clam from the security company.
I wait for your reply urgently on this matter for more details.
Thanks may God bless us.
Yours
Thomson Tapi.
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