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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: MRS.U.SHIMA <mrsushima@netscape.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:09:24 +0100
Subject: HELP
We are a family that needs help from you; we are from Zimbabwe the south of
Africa and we are farmers but we are having a very big problems with the
President Mr. Robert Mugabe because my husband said that what he is doing to
The white farmers is bad by seizing there farmlands and there personal
Belonging and also sending his mobs and aids to destroy there property.
My husband was killed by his aids and they confisticated all our property
So me and my two children had to ran to Chad a small country were we did not
Know anybody for safety were we are now seeking asylum, but the help we need
From you is to help us claim the sum of nineteen million dollars
(19,000,000.00 dollars) that my husband left or deposited in a finance house
Before his untimely death.
We cannot go and make the claim and if we try the President have people all
Over that will know and they will seize the funds, so I Mrs. shima is
Writing to you in person after much consideration I thought you are the only person that can help me and
my family claim this fund and invest it,
as a big brother nation to help us and claim this fund you can stand as a foreign partner to my late
husband and send to the finance company an application for claim or retransfer of the funds to your bank
account and you will have 30% of the total amount and if you like invest our share in your country but it's
very
Important you help us to come over to your great country.
Note: I will send the original certificate of deposit to you as soon as I receive your positive response with
the bellow information’s that I am going to use in preparing the change of beneficiary ship to your name
and address. Please I and my children are looking up to you.
(1) Your complete name and address
(2) Your date of birth
(3) Name of your company and address/position
(4) official/private phone and fax numbers
Please forward all response to my email:mrsushima@hotmail.com.
Thank you and God bless us all.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. U. Shima
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