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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: "Komoe Sallah," <komoe_sa@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:20:22 +0100
Subject: Good day from Komoe,
Greeting,
I am contacting you believing you are a honest and trustworthy person.I
believe you will not betray the confidence I am willing to repose in
you, for me to have contacted you even though we've not met before.
My name is Komoe Sallah,I'm 25 years Old boy,
the only son of late Mr.Hassan Goudalé Sallah who was the chairman
/President/CEO,Cacao-Cafe & Agro-Alimentary industries
plc.SCAFECAO)"Bouake" and ex-owner of Polyclinic LA-MADONNE, of the
Republic of Cote d'Ivoire.
You can find the story on this
website:<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2269238.stm>
On 19th of September 2002,a group of so called rebels took over the city
of Bouake to over-throw the Government of Mr.Laurent Gbagbo the
President of Cote d'Ivoire. On the 20th day morning at about 4:18am some
fractions of the same group of rebels break into our
house and killed our security guard and pass-through the gate entrance
to the main building and took my father away to an un-known destination.
After about four hours later we found him (my father) at the road side,
by then he had been totally beaten and was bleeding to death lying in
the pool of his own blood. From there, we rushed him to a near by
hospital and hours later he sent for my mother. So he told her that he
can not make it from the doctors diagnosis, he also told her that it was
because he (my father) was not from the northern part of the country that he has been
treated this way and also being a political activist. And again he said
he is suspecting some of his business partners for conspiracy and this
sort of brutality. He also told my mother that he deposited a huge
amount of money i.e US$ 6.5million dollars(six million five hundred
thousand us dollars only)in a Finance house in the Capital city of
Senegal (Dakar) and also told her where he kept the
whole documents concerning this deposit that is made for investment
purpose in the western world.
That same day, he (my father) gave up the ghost. Then with the help of
the French soldiers, we escaped to Senegal, where we are now. I am now
contacting you believing you are honest and trustworthy to help us to
receive the money in your account for investment, I and my mother has
decided in compensating you 15%of the total amount for your assistance .
Please do take your time to go through the mail and get back to us with my private email (komoe_sallah@hotmail.com)
So that I will simply introduce you to the Finance house where the fund are
being kept now for onward transfer.
I am waiting for your response.
Thanks and God bless.
Komoe Sallah,
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