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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: "DR,G Ramson" <gerbrad1@msn.com>
Reply-To: ggremson@walla.com
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:26:04 +0000
Subject: RE
Dear Sir,
Request for Confidential Business Relationship
First, I must solicit your confidence in this
transaction. I am a high placed official working with
the Ministry of Finance, here in Banjul, Gambia, West
Africa. my Department (the Treasury Department) runs
into several thousand millions of dollars monthly.
Myself and three other colleagues in this department
are currently inneed of a silent foreign partner whose
bank account we can use to transfer the sum of
Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand
U.S.dollars(us$18,500,000.00). This fund accrued
legitimately (butdiscretely) to us as commission from
foreign contracts, though our private connections.
The fund is presently waiting to be remitted by our
offshore funds managers to any foreign beneficiary
submitted by us to them as the receiver of the fund.
However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants
in our country, we cannot acquire this money in our
names. Because as high placed civil servants, we are
not allowed by the civil service code of
conduct to own or operate bank accounts outside of our
shores. On the other hand, it is not safe for us to
keep the money here due to our unstable political
environment.
I have been delegated as a matter of trust by my
colleagues, to look for an overseas silent partner in
whose account we would transfer the us$18,500,000.00
for mutual benefit, hence the reason for this email.
What i am requesting from you is: (1) To be our silent
partner and receive the funds in your account in
trust. (2) Provide a bank account under
your control to which the funds will be
remitted.(3)Receive the funds in your account, take
out your commission and keep the rest of the money
until I arrive there to meet you after the transfer is
completed.
Our proposal is that after you receive the funds, it
would be shared as follows: (1) 20% to you as
commission, while the remaining 80% belongs
to myself and the two colleagues here. You will be
free to take out your commission immediately after the
funds hit your account. Since our objective is to
invest the money in a foreign country, it would be
appreciated if you can also help us to invest our own
money into profitable ventures in your country.
However, this is optional, and should it not be
convenient for you to further assist us with investing
the money, we can end our cooperation
after you hand over to us our percentage of the money.
The transaction, although discrete,is lgitimate and
the money will be transferred to
your account with all necessary back-up documents
showing legitimate source/origin of fund. The transfer
will be effected to your account
within seven (7) working day as soon as we reach an
agreement and you furnish me with a suitable bank
account for receiving the money.
I plead with you on one issue, whether you are
interested or not, kindly do not expose this
information to any one else. I confirm that the
transaction is legitimate and without any risks either
to ourselves or yourself.
please, give me your response immediately by return
mail: while keeping everything
confidential.
yours faithfully,
Gerbrad Remson.
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