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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: "george sanoussi" <george_sanoussi@msn.com>
Reply-To: george_sanoussi2004@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:17:35 +0000
Subject: MY GOOD FRIEND
Dear Sir,
I am contacting you with reason that we are going tobe of a great use to
each other
My name is George Sanoussi, I am the first sonof Late Zainoul Abidine
Sanoussi. Untill his death, my father was the former foreign Affairs
Minister of my country (Guinea-Conakry).
Before I go into further details please be informed that I am writing
without any other person`s pre-knowledge of my contacting you, Therefore I
will appreciate same attitude to be maintained all through Days before the
death of my father he revealed to me about a deposit of a trunk box which he
deposted with my name in a private security company in Accra, Ghana for
security reasons, although he registered the contents as precious stones but
the real content of these trunk box is fhe sum of USD18M (Eighteen
MillionUnited States of American Dollars) which was his share from a secret
sale of Diamond when he was in the office, he could not deposit this funds
in a financial institution for fears of the funds being confiscated.
After the burial of my father, I made frantic effort on the best way to
handle this money. I sought advice from an attorney who advised that I must
seek for a trustworthy foreign business partner.However, I sincerely ask for
your assistance to get this Funds out of this country, and your share for
assisting us will be 15% of the total sum, 5% will be use for upsetting all
the expenses incurred in the course of concluding this venture and the
remaining 80% that will be for me and my family The consignment will be
released within seven 7 days of my being in receipt of your reply via my
alternative email address and I want to assure you that this transaction is
100% risk free In case you have any question do not hesitate to contact me
as I wait for your swift and favourable response to my email
Best Regards
George Sanoussi
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