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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: Letter From Penda <ppenda12@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:30:48 +0000
Subject: Hello Dear Good morning
Hi Good morning , how are you doing today ? i hope you sleep well last night =
i pray , Please i want to discuss with you something confidential matter =
that involve money ,
Please excise patience to read my letter very well and advise on what to do =
please , I am seeking for your help and also to know you very well and you =
know me too , My real name is Miss Penda Oscar From Liberia My Daddy was one =
of the prominent federal contractors ,He work Roads and federal houses in my =
country Liberia . and also among the board directors Diamond Mining =
coporation in my Country Liberia .
My Mother died 5 years ago and Last year February 2005 my father was attack =
by hired thugs and they force my father inside his room and short him to =
death , This is a big pain to me since i lost all my hope of father and =
Mother , upon all my fathers Money still they kill him without having mercy =
on him or respect him.
Honestly my country is very bad to stay now without hearing bad news of =
killing or raping and my age to start living alone without parents , =
Another temptation is that My father same brother called ALEX is very wicked =
to me and he was claiming most of my father property .
The reasons i write to you is to seek for your help and supports to come =
over there in your country by your assistant and stay to continue my =
education , There's money my daddy have outside my country which he kept for =
his future investments abroad worths
( $19.7million U.S.Dollars) Nineteen million seven hundred thousand united =
state dollar and he deposited it with my name in the Finance company =
outside my country as family valuable, which he explain to me many reasons i =
will explain to you later .
Please i want you and me to know very well so that you will stand on my =
behalf to contact the finance company and you verify the truth from them =
first before transferring the funds to your accounts in your country .and you =
will send me an invitation letter to come and meet with you in your country . =
All the original deposited documents are with me here now . of which i will =
send it to you to enable you to contact the Finance Company for transferring =
it to your country,
Please i don't know if you can come to this country here and we know and see =
each other first then we go to the Finance company together and send all the =
money to your accounts . But if you don,t have chance to come now , i can =
send you the documents from it you contact the Finance company and advise on =
what to do .this money is too much , i want you to help invest it in your =
country into any good thing you know that will bring profits. send me your =
phone number i want to call you to speak with you.
Also tell me how much i will give you from this money after we transfer it to =
your accounts , i want us to agree on how much to give you .
I will stop here and waiting to hear from you .
Always be blessed .
Cheers from Penda
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