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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: "Harre Kaka" <harrisonkakason9@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: harrykakason@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 20:00:13 +0200
Subject: Urgent Please
Dear Friend,
I am a staff of a reputable bank here in South Africa. I will give you the
name of the bank and other
important information if I receive a positive reply from you. For security
reasons I cannot disclose my
full identity to you for now until I am sure of your cooperation. I work in
the operations dept where I serve as account officer tonumerous customers.
One of the customers whom I worked as his account officer was a wealthy
diamond merchant from the Republic of Sierra Leone , a country in West
Africa .
He lost his family in the war. He was lucky to escape alive and came to this
country with his wealth.
Unfortunately he died in car accident in Johannesburg in one year
back.Because this man was good to me when he was alive, I took it upon
myself to travel to his country last month, to see if I could locate any of
his close relations. On reaching there I discovered that no one survivor in
that family. I sponsored this trip on my own and nobody in the bank knew I
was undertaking the journey so I did not present any official report of my
findings in South Africa .
Now there are two things I could do with respect to the dead man's money.
First, as his accounts officer, I could formally notify the bank authorities
that the man is dead and has no next of kin. In this case the money would be
forfeited to the government after some time. 0n the other hand, I can
arrange for someone, a foreigner, to act as the next of kin of the late man
so that he/she can claim the money. This is the option l have decided to
take to help myself and whoever that
God brings my way. I took this option after my findings that this fund
actually was a public fund
looted by highly place government officials under the brutal military
government in Siera Lone. I want you to be my partner. All you would have to
do is act as the next of kin of the dead man and the whole money in the
account will be transferred to your nominated bank account. As the account
officer to the late man, I have all the necessary documents that you require
to claim the money in the account.
The total money in the account is USD$9.5 million. I hope to resign my job
as a banker after the successful transfer of this money to join you in a
viable business partnership at the eventual transfer of this fund. Kindly
reach me immediately using my email. Also provide me with your direct
telephone and fax numbers for easy communication.
Waiting for your urgent response
Yours truly,
Mr. Harry
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