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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?anita=20ama?= <anitadenisama1@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: amachildren@yahoo.dk
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:11:35 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: HOW ARE YOU?
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: anitadenisama1@yahoo.co.uk
Dearest One,
Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? Permit us to inform you of
our desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to us and then
help us out in what we are about to tell you.
I am Anita Ama (22) and have a younger brother Denis (19). We are the
children of Late Mr. & Mrs. Joseph U. Ama. Our father was a very
wealthy cocoa merchant here in Lome,the economic capital of Togo.
He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their
outings on a business trip. Our mother died when we where babies.
Before the death of our father on Sep. 2004 in a private hospital here
in Lome, he secretly called us by his bed side and told us that he has
the sum of Eight millions two hundred thousand United state
dollars($8.200,000) deposited in a Finance Company in Europe. He used my
brother's name (Denis) as the next of Kin in depositing the money.
He then strongly advised us not to seek for assistance in the
investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a
foreign partner from a country of our choice (outside our country,Togo) that willl assist us in the wise investment of the money.
We are honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To serve as a guardian to us and then assist us transfer the money
into your bank account.
(2) To make arrangement for us to come over to your country to further
our education and then settle there parmanently.
If you accept to stand as our guardian or foster parent to us, we need
not discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money
as yours and then assist us invest it. But if you still want a percentage,
we are willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance.
Please tell us if you feel the percentage we offered is not ok by you.
No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please we beg you to
keep this highly secret for our safety, as we believe that those that killed
our Daddy are still after us. Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Anita and Denis
- anita ama
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