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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: "Mrs Farah Al-hashemi" <ahabashemi1@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: farahbkk@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 01:37:38 +0700
Subject: From Mrs Farah Al-hashemi
From: Mrs Farah al-Hashemi
Address: Chiang Rai hospital
31-12 Chiang Rai - Lampoon Rd,
Chiang Rai Thailand
Dearest Beloved,
Thank you for the attention beeing given to my mail.I am Mrs.Farah
al-Hashemi, The wife of iraq military finance corps Chief, who was
incharge
of the payment of the military salary during his life service
time . I am 58 years old, i am now receiving treatment in the hospital.
It's
quite obvious that I won't live Longer according to my doctor as i am
sufering from my kidney transplant illness,this is because my illness
has
gotten to a very bad stage.
My late husband died from the British and American attacks over my
country,
and during the period of our marriage we had male child,
After the death of my husband , I inherited some money which my
late
husband deposited with a Security Finance Company in Thailand for
safety.The
doctor has advised me that I may not live long, so I now decided to
contact
you to assist my sons to claim this money From where it was
deposited
and guide them for investment as you are a potential business man.
My family will be interested in doing business in your country, thefore
i
would like to seek your assistance and help.I am interested
particularly in
properties , but your advise on other areas of private sector would be
highly appreciated, i am in believe that you would be of great help in
guiding my sons to a sucessful exploration of the investment
potentials
of your country , which guarantees good capital returns and human
security
.As a result of this, i can take you in
confidence bassically due of the source of the fund , hereby believing
that
your assistance will be profitable to us.
The amount in question is USD$12 Million .I will appreciate your
willingness
to carry this transactions the gratification remark which will be
determined
as soon as i hear from you i have maped out 20%, for your assistance
and 5%
would be used for the re-embursement of any expenses that is encurred
during
on the process of this transaction .
Lastly, I honestly pray that this money when transferred to your
country
will be used for the said purpose of investing in the industry, because
I
have come to find out that wealth acquisition without Allah is vanity
upon
vanity.
I await your urgent reply to enable me up-date you with more
information and
how to proced.
Do feel free to ask me any question if you wish to as my husbands death
has
blocked every trace of this money from us,the documentations relating
to the
deposit of this fund are all intact with my first son for your
verification
. you can get back to me with this email:farahbkk@yahoo.co.uk. I
wait
to hear from you soonest.
Yours Sincerely.
Mrs Farah al-Hashemi
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