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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_zeynab01@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:56:34 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=20Mrs=20Zeynab=20Ibrahim=20Ali=2E?=
My Dear,
I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not known
before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should
please consider the transaction on its content and not the fact that you
have not known me before.
I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there
are many such possibilities these days. I would like to introduce myself
as Mrs zeynab Ibrahim Ali, of Republic of Benin, widow to Late Mr. Usman
Ali (for Consular of the Benin embassy in Madrid, Spain). I am sorry if
you are embarrassed by my mail, I found your e-mail address in the web directory,
and I have decided to contact you, but if for any reason you find this
mail offensive, you can ignore it and please accept my apology. I have
been recently been diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvic and I am writing from
my sick bed.
There is this USD$7.2M (seven million two hundred thousand American dollars)
my husband has in an account with the Financial Bank, Benin of which I am
the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have
no children, I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the
right of next of kin. He will utilize the fund for the sole running of a
humanitarian organization just as I will direct.
This is on the condition that you will take only 25% of the fund for yourself,
5% used for expenses, while you will use the remaining 70% for the less
privileged people in the society. This is in fulfilment of the last request
of my husband that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for
the less privileged mainly in Africa, Asia and some part of Europe. I have
disbursed most substantial part of my properties and assets to my family
friends for the development of charity organizations in Algeria, Kenya and
some other poor African countries.
If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately
with your full names and contact information so that I will ask my family
lawyer to prepare the authorization that will give you the right of next
of kin to the account in the bank. I will also give you a text of the application
you are to send to the bank.
I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be transferred
into your account, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as
I have described above.
I will prefer that you reach me via this email address: mrs_zeynab1@sify.com
I look forward to your response.
My regards to you and your family,
Mrs Zeynab Ibrahim Ali.
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