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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: "Yekaterina Kozlov" <elenakozlov@avmail.biz>
Reply-To: elenakozlov@earthlink.net
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:23:13 +0000
Subject: Your Consent Needed
Hello,
May I take this opportunity to introduce my self and my purpose of contacting you through this medium? I am Mrs.Yekaterina Kozlov, wife of Late. Andrei Kozlov ( The top deputy chairman of Russia's Central Bank).
I do apologize for invading your privacy but because of the need and urgency of this matter. I am contacting you to solicit your assistance and partnership. I will at this point do ask for your favor by asking you to please click on the links below for various articles and reports that unfolds the whole drama that has led to my husband's assassination. I have to flee the country with my children for safety, we are currently residing in the United Kingdom.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/09/14/russia.banker/index.html?
I also ask that you can conduct as much research as you can on this story and then we can proceed further.
My husband deposited the sum of $26,300,000 USD (Twenty Six Million,Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in a security firm abroad for safe keeping. I have in my possession all the documents that covers the fund. The fact that I am an asylum seeker in the United Kingdom, It is not in my legal
capacity to put up claims to the fund. I ask for your partnership to assist me redeem this money from the security firm.
For now, I cannot disclose the financial institution that is currently holding the funds, this is purely for security reasons being that for now I cannot ascertain your trust now but when I do, I will do so, trust me you will have assess to all vital information about this transaction and how you are to become involved and what needs to be done.
This is a legitimate transaction and I personally voluntarily decided to offer you 20% of the fund as commission for your effort and assistance, while 78% will be for me and my children. 2% will be reserve for expenses that may be incurred.
E-mail: elenakozlov@hotmail.com
Finally, please note that this transaction is strictly confidential due to the current political calamity that has befell my family in Russia. For now you can contact me through my personal email above and I will get back to you on time. Please write back promptly. Write me back. I look forward to it.
Sincerely,
Yekaterina Kozlov.
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