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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: "Catherine Martins" <cathy.martins@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 17:42:17 +0000
Subject: PARTNER -[fppex]
Catherine Martins
205 Cork Street,
Randburg, JHB SA.
TEL: +27 83 9985295.
PLS. TAKE TIME TO READ.
I do recognize the surprise this urgent but confidential letter will bring to you especially as it came from a stranger, but rest assured that it came with the best of intentions. I am Mrs. Catherine Martins, from the Diamond-rich district of Sierra Leone and my late husband was the former Special adviser to the ousted Head of State of Sierra Leone, Major Johnny Paul Koroma. I got your email address from a friend who works at the International Chamber of Commerce here in South Africa.
During the war between our forces led by the Ex-Head of State, Major Johnny Paul Koroma and the West African Allied Forces (ECOMOG), my country relied heavily on the foreign earnings generated from diamond trade. This money was personally kept by the then President Major Johnny Paul Koroma since our banking system had collapsed during the war. However, as the war progressed, it became apparent that we were going to loose the war to the superior and better armed West African Allied Forces (ECOMOG). At this point, Major Johnny Paul Koroma ordered my husband to carry a total of US$150,000,000.00 to South Africa by diplomatic means to deposit into his account.
My husband succeeded in doing exactly that but then he starched away the sum of US$30,000,000.00 from the total money and lodged it in a security and storage company here in South Africa for safe keeping and to avoid being traced. The rest of the money he deposited into Major J.P. Koromah's bank account in South Africa. This angered Major Koromah so much that he arrested my husband on his return back home and tortured him to death.
I was also arrested and imprisoned but as God may have it, I was granted state pardon along with some other women whose husbands were in the former government. Now I am in South Africa with my only son Charles Martins and all the security documents of the lodgment made by my late husband in which my son and I were the beneficiaries and good that my late husband submitted our pictures and a code to the security company, which made it easier for us to be identified.
Right now we need a trust worthy individual or company that can help us transfer the money to his account/accounts abroad for investments. I will give you further little details like share percentage and others immediately you indicate interest.
Regards,
Mrs. Catherine Martins.
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