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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: "williams_linda35" <williams_linda35@terra.com.mx>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:48:47 -0600
Subject: I await your urgent response
Greetings in the name of God,Pls let this not sound strange to you for
my only surviving lawyer who would have done this died early this
year.i prayed and got you email id from your countrys christian guestbook
which i have been with my late huband and liked to visit once more if God
will in his infinite mercies.
I am Mrs. Linda williams from Netherlands,I am 58 years old,i am deaf
and suffering from a long time cancer of the breast which also affected
my brain,from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and
it is quite obvious that, according to my doctors they have advised me
that i may not live for the next two months,this is because the cancer
stage has gotten to a very bad stage. I was brought up from a
motherless babies home was married to my late husband for twenty years without a
child ,died in a fatal motor accident Before his death we were true
Christians.
Since his death I decided not to re-marry,I sold all my inherited
belongings and deposited all the sum of $3.5million dollars with a Security
Company.Presently, this money is still with them and the management
just wrote me as the true owner to come forward to receive the money for
keeping it so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody
to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over because of my
illness or they get it confisticated.
Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital where I have been
undergoing treatment for cancer of the lungs. I have since lost my ability to
talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live.
It is my last wish to see that this money is invested to any
organisation of your choice and distributed each year among the charity
organization,the poor and the motherless babies home where i come from.
I want you God fearing, to also use this money to fund churches,
orphanages and widows,I took this decision, before i rest in peace
because my time will soon be up.
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the
Security
Company.
I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the
new beneficiary of my fund. Please assure me that you will act
accordingly as I stated herein.
Waiting for your reply.
Yours in Christ,
Mrs. Linda williams
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