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Fraud email example:

From: Richard Vanmer <ricvanmer408@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <ricvanmer@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 02:55:28 -0500
Subject: Reply Soon







Hello,



I
present you with this business opportunity to participate and note that I will
not ask you for your money to invest in this business with me. All monies for
this business investment will be provided by me.



My
name is Richard Vanmer a gold merchant from Ireland. I have been into the
trading of gold and diamonds from Asian and European countries for the most
part of my life. I have been out of
business for awhile but I want to start my gold business again.



I
currently have cash in the sum of $855,000 with a bank in the USA. This amount of money is
my only hope to build back my gold business.



I
am contacting you with a kind spirit to enable us work together in some gold
deals I would be partaking in. The role I want you to play is to be a financial
agent for the gold deals I will be arranging. As a financial agent you will
help me transfer funds from my bank account in the USA to bank accounts of my
various buyers I will be providing you. You will also be my business partner in
the USA since most of my buyers
of gold are within North America.



I
am willing to pay you 20% of the total amount of each transaction we complete. Please note that I will provide all funds for
the gold transactions. For the first deal, which can be concluded in the next 5
days, I want you to transfer $41,000 to a bank account in China to close a gold
transaction. Your pay will be $8200 on that deal. I will be willing to close
enough deals involving huge amounts of money and I will be starting with small
deals.



I
actually make enough profits in my gold deals because I buy from very cheap
sources (far below prices in the gold market) round the globe and I will be
willing to share with you upon negotiation. My connections for delivery and
sales are very strong. It will be very nice working with me as we will be in
for making big money from my gold deals.



I
look forward to hearing from you. Please contact me via email for more details
so we can progress.





Regards,

Richard
Vanmer.


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