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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: Betty Campbell <bettycampbell14@yahoo.it>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 12:46:10 +0100
Subject: Hello
Good day,
I got your contact from my search for a reliable, trust,worthy and competent
business manager/hard working person who will be willing and able to develop
his or her businesses/profession to a greater height and who also can be
trusted to be my friend to assist me and help me out of a problem facing me,
which I believed you could be trusted and be worthy to be that friend that
can help me.
I am Betty Campbell, 25 years old girl from Barbados, which I and my family
(my mother who died four years ago here in London, Father and myself)
immigrated to London - United Kingdom 21 years ago. I have diploma in
accounting and I also worked in my father trading company here in London
called Campbell Trading Enterprises as an accounting officer. A year later
after the death of my mother, my father got married to a British lady who
made life miserable for me up to a certain circumstances that made me to
developed the interest in establishing a business investment outside London
- U.K. without my step mother or any one close to her knowing about it.
Hence I contacted you for friendship and business relationship.
The fund in question proposed for this project is US$7.8million (Seven
Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only), which I will
like you to receive it on my behalf and to invest it in your business or in
any business that you think will be profitable in your country.
Please let me know more about yourself and also let me know if you can be
able to receive the money for me and invest it on a good and profitable
business in your country without exposing me, so as to give you all the
necessary documents and details needed to make the money transferred to you.
Please write back if only you know you are capable enough to execute this
project in your country.
Please for the sake of confidentiality and utmost secrecy this deal
required, kindly reply me back through my confidential email address:
bettycampbell14@yahoo.it
Yours faithfully,
Betty Campbell.
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