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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: james freeman <jamesfreeman@walla.com>
Reply-To: james_freeman2006@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 13:11:38 +0200
Subject: freedom is supreme
Tel:0034696300237
Dear Sir,
With warm heart I offer my friendship, and greetings hoping that this mail meets you in good time. However strange or surprising this contact might seem to you, as we have not met personally or had any dealings in the past, I humbly ask that you take due consideration of its importance and immense benefit. I also sincerely seek your confidence, as I make this proposal to you as a person of integrity and will appreciate if you maintain the strict confidence with which am writing you.
For introduction, I am Mr. James Freeman, the escapee body guard of Charles Taylor, former Liberian President presently standing trial at the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal sitting in Sierra Leone, As led by my instinct, I got your contact through the Spanish Chamber of Commerce business directory here in Madrid, Spain in my desperate search for a honest partner who would assist and cooperate with me in achieving this beneficial business.
My former boss was among the key financiers of the Rebel Movement in Sierra Leone as he is rightly charged in the tribunal but before this problem, he directed me to deposit the sum of US$ 10 Million Dollars with a security and finance company here in Spain as if he knew the looming Danger about to happen, that is his recent arrest and prosecution.
The money was deposited in a box as family treasures with a security company to avoid the possibility of knowing that it contains money, it also has an insurance cover. This money was earmarked for the purchase of arms and ammunitions to aid the rebel insurgence in Sierra Leone. It is against this background that I am reaching you via this letter from where I am currently hiding in Spain having managed to get here from the Nigerian-Chad border during the arrest as we were trying to escape from there. I have decided to transfer this said amount out of Spain into a foreign bank account with your help for investment purposes and to enable me marry and settle down.
As a fugitive, I am confronted with the responsibility of seeking a reliable and honest person that is God fearing with genuine desire to assist me so that he can come down to Spain here and assist me in claiming the money from the company so that we will go into a joint business as I have wasted the better part of my life being a body guard to Taylor.
Perhaps I must let you know that the transaction is very risk free so let me hear from you as soon as possible so that you will reach the security company and request to clear the consignment. My email address is: Email: james_freeman2006@yahoo.com
Thanks
JAMES FREEMAN
Tel:0034-696300237
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