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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. Theresa Khobe" <theresakb4@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:45:29 +0000
Subject: PLEASE REPLY ME FAST.
Dear Beloved,
This is with due respect, please bear with me at the perceived confusion or
stress you may be receiving this letter from me.
I am Mrs. Theresa Khobe, the wife of late Gen. Maxwell Khobe former ECOMOG
[West African peacekeeping force] commander who died in the Sierra Leone
civil disturbance [War]. My three daughters and I are trapped in obnoxious
custom traditional rites. We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship
in the hands of my late husbands family, simple because I did not bear a
male child for my late husband By tradition, all that my husband had,
[wealth] belongs to his brothers/family and myself is to be married by his
immediate younger brother. They have taken all that I suffered with my
husband to acquire including treasure, houses and his bank accounts closed
by them. I wanted to escape to the United State of America [USA} with my
children on exile, but again they conspired and stole my international
passport and other traveling documents to further frustrate me. Thank God,
two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code [KTC} from SECURITIES COMPANY, that
my husband deposited U.S $5.7 Million [Five Million seven Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars] cash with this company. It has therefore, become very
necessary and urgent to contact some one, a foreigner like you to help me
receive/secure these funds overseas and to help invest it on our behalf as
well, while we find a way of getting out to meet with you in your country.
These funds are kept on a CODE with the Securities Company to avoid
detection, seizure or diversion. I have had several telephone discussions
with the Assistant Director of the Securities Company, Mr. Gilbert Scott who
has express willingness to help me on meeting the company’s demand. This is
why I have contacted you to help save my children and I, receive these funds
on our behalf. But, you would need to give me sufficient assurance that if
you help me, you would not divert the funds. My children and I have resolved
to give you 20% of the total sum. This is all my children and I have got to
live on. Please, I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not
disappoint me.
I will forward you the contact of Mr. Gilbert Scott for you to contact him
and ask him the possibility of receiving this fund on our behalf as the sole
beneficiary look forward to your urgent response.
Best Personal Regards,
Mrs. Theresa Khobe
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