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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: Durant Kojo <d_kojo3@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:07:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT PLEASE
Goodday to you,
Please I wish to request for your permission to introduce myself as Durant Kojo I hail from Liberia but now in Ghana due to my late father who came to Ghana to deal on valuable stones like gold, diamond and coal. My late father died through a bullets injury which occurred during the political crisis in my country Liberia and after his death I immediately flew to Ghana.
But my main aim of contacting you is because I want to leave African for good and there are some certain things that I’ll like to entrust under your care, can I trust and confide in you like a true friend? Can you stand for me as my fiance and foreign business partner in your country? Because before my late father died he instructed and confided in me as his only son about his business and secrecy. As a matter of fact, my late father gave me some documents bearing the name of a security company (Inter-con Security company Ltd.) here in Ghana concerning his funds that is worth about (US$12.5M U.S.D) and also my name was being used as the next of kin in the deposit form. However, my late father said he cleverly packaged in one sealed metalic trunk box and deposited it in the security company for safe keeping with an inscription on it "FAMILY TREASURE" and then told the security company officials that it contained works of art. This he said he did in order to conceal the
money from being detected. This money is now lying at the vault of the security company.
So I am appealing to you to come to my aid as my foreign beneficiary by standing on my behalf due to my refugee status and the laws of this country, and also assisting me for the transfer of this funds to your country as I promise to give to you 40% for all your efforts and expenses and I will also come over to u immediately after the transfer of the money has commence so that we can both be able to put our heads together to invest part of the money into any profitable business. Please also send me your direct telephone numbers for easy communication and confidentiality in this transaction. I’m in anticipation to hear from you soon.
Thanks and God bless you.
Durant Kojo.
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