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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: "Steve Amzah" <steve_gambia101@yahoo.dk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: amzahconsulting@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 18:32:04 +0100
Subject: Your Future and Ours
Dear Sir/Ma,
Request for confidential business relationship
First, I must solicit your confidence in this
transaction. I am a high placed official working with the ministry, here in banjul,gambia, west africa. My department (the treasury department) runs into several thousand
millions of dollars monthly.
Myself and three other colleagues in this department
are currently in neeed of a silent foreign partner
whose bank account we can use to transfer the sum of
eighteen million five hundred thousand u.s.dollars
(us$18,500,000.00). This fund accrued legitimately
(but discretely) to us as commission from foreign
contracts, through our private connections.
The fund is presently waiting to be remitted by our
offshore funds managers to any foreign beneficiary
submitted by us to them as the receiver of the fund.
However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants
in our country, we cannot acquire this money in our
names.
Because as high placed civil servants, we are not
allowed by the civil service code of conduct to own or
operate bank accounts outside of our shores. On the
other hand, it is not safe for us to keep the money
here due to our unstable political environment.
I have been delegated as a matter of trust by my
colleagues, to look for an overseas silent partner in
whose account we would transfer the us$18,500,000.00
for mutual benefit, hence the reason for this email.
What i am requesting from you is: (1) to be our silent
partner and receive the funds in your account in
trust. (2) provide a bank account under your control
to which the funds will be remitted. (3) receive the
funds in your account, take out your commission and
keep the rest of the money until i arrive there to
meet you after the transfer is completed.
Our proposal is that after you receive the funds, it
would be shared as follows: (1) 20% to you as
commission, while the remaining 80% belongs to myself
and the two colleagues here. You will be free to take
out your commission immediately after the funds hit
your account. Since our objective is to invest the
money in a foreign country, it would be appreciated if
you can also help us to invest our own money into
profitable ventures in your country.
However, this is optional, and should it not be
convenient for you to further assist us with investing
the money, we can end our cooperation after you hand
over to us our percentage of the money.
The transaction, although discrete, is legitimate and
the money will be transferred to your account with all
necessary back-up documents showing legitimate
source/origin of fund. The transfer will be effected
to your account within seven (7) working days as soon
as we reach an agreement and you furnish me with a
suitable bank account for receiving the money.
I plead with you on one issue, whether you are
interested or not, kindly do not expose this
information to any one else. I confirm that the
transaction is legitimate and without any risks either
to ourselves or yourself.
Please, give me your response immediately by return
mail, while keeping everything confidential.
Yours faithfully
Steve Amzah
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