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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. Hassan A. Ahmed" <mariam_abacha033@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mhassan440@myway.com
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:57:45 -0700
Subject: Your urgent reply
Your urgent reply
Dear Friend,
I am a widow and a mother of two. Permit me to inform you of my desire of
going into business relationship with you, l want you to help me out in
securing this fund (us $6.9million dollars) into your nominated bank account
and in your custody for safe keeping as you know that you can keep security,
be trusted and hope on, pending my arrival in your country as l will like to
invest in muilt-national company 0r any profitable business venture. It all
started after the sudden death of my husband. I have been thrown into a
state of utter confusion, frustration and hopelessness by my late husband
family members as we have been subjected to physical and psychological
torture by them. Unfortunately to these wicked family members? My late
husband deposited money with a Finance House unknown to them.
And according to some barbaric traditional laws here in West Africa which
does not permit a woman to inherit a man's property, as it is expected by
tradition. For this reason l want to settle down with my kids in your
country if only you will welcome us, as i am very sure that you will be of a
good assistance that is the more reason why i have contacted you to stand
and receive this fund on my behalf. Though this said fund accumulated
between the periods 1998-2004, which belongs to my late husband as he died
of Heart Attack and. Now the management of the bank have just wrote me as
the beneficiary to come forward to receive the money, So I have discussed
this matter with the bank lawyer that i want this money personally so that I
will be able to take care of my children educational needs. According to him
the best way to secure this money is for me to look for a foreigner who
would assist me in the transferring this money outside my country to a
foreign account for safe-keeping, the fund can be paid to you from there
branch here or from the offshore payment center in United kingdom as i have
decided to compensate you with 30% for your assistance and 10% for any
expense that you may incur.
Later l can then use it for business establishment that is why l needs your
help. My husband has deposited this fund pending when he would finish
arrangement to transfer it abroad for an investment before his death due to
the poor banking system here and political instability as a result of past
Military rules. Ever since then i and my fatherless kids have being living
without nobody to help us, give back life and future to us as we hope on
you. To be sincere and honest with you, this money is never connected with
drugs, money laundry, firearms and looting, which I believe might make you
skeptical and consequently withdrawing your help for security reasons. I
would like to receive your contact details so that we can discuss business.
However, l wants to invest 60% to a profiting business with you after the
successful transferred of the fund to you. All the modiatilite to make you
the beneficiary will work out as we proceed. I wait to hear from you and if
you’re not interested kindly let me know so that l can search for someone
else. It is profit oriented business and there is no risk involve, please
honesty is the watch word in this transaction.
My regards to you.
Mrs. Hassan M Ahmed
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