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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: "Egbeda Collins" <c.egbeda@yahoo.gr>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:31:42 -0700
Subject: Charity works
No 20 Kofi Street
Off Nana Road
Zambia
Republic of Zambia
Dear Beloved in Christ.
How are you today? hope you are fine.
Please permit me to introduce myself, I am COLLINS EGBEDA
As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for
me,
because, I believe everyone will die someday.
I was a Crude Oil merchant in Zambia,i have been
diagnosed with Esophageal spinal cord after the motor
accident I hard A year and six months
now. It has defiled all forms of medical treatment no
improvements
I stay one place in the Hospital without walking, this
mail was
written by one of the nurses who is in the
hospital here
and hard promised to keep this secret.
I await for death any time from now may be in the next
few
months,according to medical experts. I have not
particularly
lived my life so well, as I never really cared for
anyone(not
even myself)but my business. Though I am very rich, I
was never
generous, I was always hostile to people and only
focused on my
business as that was the only thing I cared for. But
now I regret
all this as I now know that there is more to life than
just
wanting to have or make all the money in the world. I
believe
when God gives me a second chance to come to this
world I would
live my life a different way from how I have lived it.
Now that
God has called me, I have willed and given most of
my property
and assets to my immediate and extended family members
as well as
a few close friends. I want God to be merciful to me
and accept my
sou. so,I have decided to give alms to charity
organizations, as
I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on
earth. Now that my
health has
deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself
anymore. I once
asked members of my family to close one of my accounts
and
distribute the money which I have to charity
organization,
they refused and kept the
money to
themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as
they seem not
to be contended with what I have left for them.
The last of my money which no one knows of is the
cash deposit with
a finance/Security Company . I will want you to
help me
collect this deposit and distribute it to charity
organizations.
If you
feel up to
it and you are honest, please contact me asap.and I
shall proceed to inform you on how you get the donation
from the
security company. Please
get back to me through this private email
address: Please
get back to me through this private email
address: c.egbeda@yahoo.gr
May God bless you as you do for mankind.
Yours in vineyard
Collins
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