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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: "prince hakeem bolkiah" <princehakeembolkiah@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:04:53 +0000
Subject: Investment Enquiries!!!
Dear partner,
I am contacting you for an Urgent Business Transaction and further
explicit investment assistance in your country. Based on the information
and recommendation satisfactorily gathered concerning your person, I
hereby need you to read this email message carefully because it is very
imperative. I have been reliably informed that some people send fraudulent
letters to unsuspecting individuals overseas making bogus claims.
Please be informed that this is not such letters as my claims are real.
My name is PRINCE HAKEEM F. BOLKIAH, the eldest son of PRINCE JEFRI
BOLKIAH who was the former Finance Minister of Brunei. Brunei Darussalam
is a small country located in the northwest of the island of Borneo and
governed by His Majesty SHEIK HAJI HASSANAL BOLKIAH MU'IZZADDIN
WADDAULAH.
I will save your time by not amplifying my extended Royal Family
history which has already been disseminated by the international media
during
the controversial dispute that erupted between my father and his
stepbrother, the sultan of Brunei SHEIK HAJI HASSANAL BOLKIAH. You can
visit
the websites below for a better understanding of the situation:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/670959.stm
http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/2000/0310/nat.brunei.jefri.html
As you may know from the international media, the Sultan had accused my
father of financial
mismanagement and impropriety of USD14.8 Billion. This was as a result
of the Asian financial crisis which made my father company Amedeo
development Corporation(ADC) and government owned Brunei Investment
Agency(BIA) to be declared bankrupt during his tenure in office. PRINCE
JEFRI
BOLKIAH was relieved of his post as Finance Minister of Brunei and was
stripped of his chairmanship post as head of the nation's international
investment arm, the Brunei Investment Agency in February 1998. The
Agency controls 13 companies & Brunei's overseas assets.
In July 1998, SHEIK HAJI HASSANAL BOLKIAH barred trading by Amedeo
Development Corporation when the world's biggest corporate debt of USD14.8
Billion came to light. In September the 1998, the Sultan ordered an
investigation of the BIA by accountants KPMG after the Brunei government
alleged that"large sums of money" had been misappropriated to companies
controlled by PRINCE JEFRI BOLKIAH. The Sultan then asked the Bank of
England to help track down an alleged 28 Billion British Pounds of state
and family funds said to be "missing".
On the 02/10/1998 PRINCE JEFRI BOLKIAH flew from London in a private
jet and was going to settle matters directly with SHEIK HAJI HASSANAL
BOLKIAH. PRINCE JEFRI drove straight to his seaside palace at Jerudong,
about 10 miles south of the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan as he was due to
meet with officials of the Amedeo Development Corporation and visit the
sultan. After series of meetings relations between the Royals appeared
to deteriorate quickly. However,my father was arrested, his Bank
Accounts and private properties including a crude oil export refinery &
three
large oil wells which were later confiscated by the sultanate. During
this unfortunate period i was advised to evacuate my immediate family
outside the sultanate to avoid further prosecution from the sultan and
his security operatives. Before I could do that I was placed under house
arrest by SHEIK HAJI HASSANAL BOLKIAH.
Before my arrest, I went ahead to dispatch the sum of USD$1 Billion in
cash under special arrangement into the custody of different Offshore
Banks and Private security and Trustee companies for safe keeping
abroad. The money where split and kept in the following countries in this
proportion: USD$500 Million is in different offshore Bank accounts while
the rest are with Private Deposit & Trustee companies with:- USD$50
Million is in England, USD$100 Million is in Spain, USD$100 Million is in
Arabia, USD$80 Million is in United Arab Emirate the balance USD$70
Million in India and USD$100 Million in Malaysia.
I am unable to reach my friends & associates whom would have provided
all the much needed moral and financial assistance i require to release
the funds because my private/personal diary was seized by my uncle
SHEIK HAJI HASSANAL BOLKIAH who also happens to be the Sultan of Brunei. I
seek your good will & assistance to receive and invest these funds into
profitable business investment in your country to facilitate future
survival for me and my family abroad. I am counting on your absolute
transparency, honesty and confidentiality which this transaction deserves
while looking forward to your prompt reply. I await your Urgent Reply.
Best Regards,
PRINCE PRINCE HAKEEM F. BOLKIAH
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
Wassalam
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