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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: "hussein malik" <hussein2222malik@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: hussen_malik22222@Yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:16:14 +0000
Subject: STRICKLY CONFIDENTIAL
attn. pls,
Compliments of the season, First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest
confidence in this transaction and i pray that my decision to contact you
will be given genuine attention considering the facts that we have not met
each other before.
I wish to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you.
I am Hussein Malik from Khono, Sierra-Leone. I write to inform you of my
desire to invest in your country. I am the son of Dr. Hussein Usman he was a
diamond merchant in my country, my father had a bullet shot by the rebels on
his way to the capital city Free town along with my brother, my brother died
on the spot while U.N Peace Keeping Force rescued my father, he was rush to
nearby hospital for medical treatment but he later died.
Before he died he revealed to me and my mother about the TRUNK BOXES he
deposited with a security company in Ghana, the TRUNK BOXES contained
($18,500,000 US DOLLAR) it was kept there by my late father for safe
keeping, now my self and my mother have written to the security company in
Ghana notifying them for the claim of the TRUNK BOXES. Note here that the
trunk boxes were deposited with Security Company as family valuable; as such
they did not know the trunk boxes contained money.
My intention of writing you is to present you to the security company As my
late father business associate and you will stand as her foreign
Manager/Investor to whom the USD18.5 million should be released to for
Onward investment purposes because she had been a full time Housewife All
through her married life and as such has no experience in financial
Management matters.
>From the discussions I held with her, I discovered that my mother is
Interested in buying a good house to live with me abroad. Under this
Circumstances I deem it fit that you can be of assistance to us, Because I
have the believe you can capably handle this transaction without any mistake
as this is the only hope we have left in this world. Looking forward to your
prompt reply.
For your mutual assistance, my mother and I have agreed to offer You 20% of
the total amount of the money. We have all the vital documents covering the
deposit and the ownership, which I can send to you through, fax or email on
request.
Note: I have never disclosed this to any person apart from you, so you Have
to keep this transaction as a top secret to yourself alone. I will Want you
to forward across to me your direct tell/fax number for more Information
about this transaction.
At the moment me and my mother are in a UN Refugee Camp in Accra Ghana.
Thanks and God bless you,
Hussein Malik.
00233-244-937-964
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