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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: tema williams <temawilliams22@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:17:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: urgent reply
Dear Sir,
I recieved your mail with joy and gladness. I will appreciate your willingness to assist my family in this critical moment.
I want you to trust me in this transaction and also know that you are not paying to my lawyer because my lawyer will be paid after the transaction is completed, please let us co-operate together so that we can complete this transaction succesfully.
I have just gotten a very safe and secure mean to move our fund out of the Country through the help of a lawyer that promised us that if we can get someone abraod that can stand for us as a beneficiary because
we can not stand as a beneficiary due to our present status as a refugee and I really want to seize the opportunity to move our fund to safety, that is why I began searching for a trustworthy and reliable business man to assist.
I am not very vast with business,my father have been involved in cocoa merchant for a long period of time before we had a problem .
I am very happy to be in contact with you and I assure you that you will not regret knowing our family, and we shall hugely compensate you in negotiable percentage.
I believe in trust and humility and I want you to know that my family is willing to entrust you and we do not want you to take advantage of our situation and let us down.
Note that am 22 yrs and my sister is 18 yrs while my mother is 42 yrs,After the money is transfer to you,you will help us to invest it in a profitable investment and you will manage it for us because my sister and i will continue our education in your country and my mother can not manage any investment because she's sick of stroke due to the stress she's facing as a refugee.
Please kindly stand for us as a father. I need you to reply me this mail immediately and send me your full details, telephone and fax number, I also would like for you to give me a brief history about your self, Are you married? How many children do you have and age?, how long have you been in Business and what type of business are you involved in? so that we can invest our money in that area of your business, can your account hold our family fund without any problems?.
Kindly get back to me immediately and I will ask my lawyer to contact you with better explanation and information on how the fund will be transfer to you,and please this transaction need to be kept secret so that know one will divert our money during transfer.
Hoping to hear from you soonest.
Tema Williams [ for the family]
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