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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: "Mr. Aba Imo" <mr_aba_imo@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: eke54@ummah.org
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:29:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Aba
Dear Sir,
I wish you prosperity bless this year. I am Mr. Aba Imo the Personal Financial/Business Consultant to Late Dr. Charles Walter. An Oil Merchant who died without any WILL his banker contacted me to assist in locate any of my clients relatives or next of kin in regards to his deposit sum of US$17M. Note that I got your email address through my personal research on who to do business with, I decided to contact you to enable us actualizing this inheritance fund transfer to your account.
After thorough inquiries and crosschecking, I know that he had no wife or children that are known only to his lawyer and me. His Bank wants if his lawyer or I can provide them his relatives, Next of Kin or have the account confiscated in a shot time we wish to secure some economic arrangement by way of soliciting for a trusted foreigner like you to put immediate claims to this dormant account. So that the fund will be released and paid into your Bank account as the beneficiary with our position all documents and proofs to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out through his Lawyer and I.
As a show of my good faith in this inheritance fund transfer to your account below is a copy of death certificate of late Dr. Charles Walter
There is no risk involved on your part in this transaction; all we need from you is requested bellow.
(a). Provide your confidential telephone and fax numbers with address.
(b). Providing an account where this fund will be transferred.
If it interests you to assist, please feel free to contact me METHOD/MODE OF SHARING: -
(1) Myself = 70%
(2) For your assistant = 10%
(3) Account holder (That's you) = 20%
I feel you might have been receiving series of letters from Africa; this is absolutely a different thing, I swear to this not lie or mislead Like I said, no risk involved let me hear from you, Please kindly see that attachment of the death certificate regards to this inheritance fund as a show of evidence. kindly contact me by my direct e-mail: eke54@ummah.org
Best regards,
Mr. Aba Imo
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