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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: "Peter Williams" <pwilliams@ocala.com>
Reply-To: p_will01@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:13:00 -0500
Subject: READ AND RESPOND
Dear Sir,
Due to my careful search for an honest, reliable and sincere business
partner, I got your contact,and i ask if you can be trusted not to
break an agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my mind to
contact you and to offer you this proposal of mine of which my whole
life depends on. My name is Peter Williams, the son of Late Jenni
Williams, the spokeperson of CFU "Commercial Farmers' Union of
Zimbabwe" please go through this link
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/06/24/zimbabwe.farmers/index.html,
During the crises against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supports of
President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his
party members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to
surrender all farms to his party members and his followers. My father
is One of the most successful multy farmers in our country, managed by
himself and my mother and because he did not support Mugabe
ideas,Mugabes supporters invaded his farm and burnt everything in the
farm, killing him and made away with a lot of items in my fathers farm
in the process.
Before his death, my father had deposited with a SECURITY AND FINANCE
HOUSE IN SOUTH AFRICA the sum of (USD $60 MILLION). He informed me
about the security company and the money before his death, he told me
that the money was statched into two trunk boxes and deposited at the
security company. He told me that the security company officials do
not know the true content of the two trunk boxes because it was
declared as classified personal effected.
Based on the invitation of farmers to Kwara state Nigeria "see link :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4247993.stm" I decided to move in
there with my mother and sister, hoping that one day I would be able
to claim the money from the finance house n South Africa. After
several efforts I was unable to claim the consignment because the
secret services ofpresident Robert Mugabe have found out the money and
they are bent on ensuring that we do not near South Africa. Since we
were unable to fulfill the requirement of the Nigerian Government, we
decided to seek for asylum.
As we are now, my mother and sister are still stranded in Africa and
the only means of their livelyhood is by working as labourers in the
New mega farms out here in Kwara state Nigeria.I am begging for your
help because without this money we will remain refugees and therefore
be feeding from hand to mouth. I was lucky to have found myself here
in the United Kingdom through the help of a non-Government
organization, there was only one space and my parents decided I should
go.
I want you to help us claim the boxes of money from the security
company so that we can start a new life again.
If you are interested in helping us, we shall give you 30% of the
total sum and you should provide the following information:
1. Your fullnames
2. Your address
3. Your private telephone and fax numbers.
Immediately the above information, I shall send to you the certificate
of deposit and more information on how you are to claim the boxes from
the security company.
Sincerely Yours,
Peter Williams .
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