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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 Oscar <ppendall@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:46:54 +0000
Subject: Good morning
Hi dear good morning .
First of all , i must wish you merry Christmas and happy new year ,Please do =
read my mail well and help me out of my situation now . Honestly it's due to =
the character behaviour of my Uncle called Alex ,He threaten me since my =
father is dead , upon he claim some most of my father properties , Thinking =
that i am too young to ask him about it , He said that so far i am a girl =
that i have no right to my father properties but near neighbours advise me =
not to challenge to him yet , that i should seek advise from Lawyer to stop =
his actions.
But now the most important reason that makes me to contact you is this , i =
need your help and advice, There was money my father has in a well known Bank =
outside my country , He deposited this money in my name as next of kin and =
this money is huge amout of money Worth's Six million seven hundred thousand =
united state dollars .$6.7m ,
Dear Please know that any thing concern this money that this my Uncle Alex =
don,t know about it , because my father told me every thing about this money =
and warn me to keep every thing about this money secret ,This is why i don,t =
want any one here in Africa to know any of my movements till i move out of =
this country .
Dear Please i prefer it better for you to come down here and see the =
documents by your self and you meet the bank face to face direct for the =
transfer of this money to your country, But if you don,t have chance to come =
,i can send it to you by email or by Fax so that you will see it and study it =
well , Then you stand as my father business partner or friend and email the =
bank and advise them to transfer this money to your country , and you will =
send me an invitation Letter to come and meet you in your country ,Then we =
discuss on what investment we should put the money into .
I don,t want to disclose much about this money because of security reasons =
and i don,t want my father brother Alex to know any of my movements for now =
till this money is transferred to your position . mean while i would like to =
discuss how much i will give you from this money before helping me , so that =
we agree on it first .
I'm waiting for your reply .
>From Penda
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