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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: mary kobe <marykobr@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:57:29 -0500
Subject: Dearly Beloved
ALTERNATIVE E-MAIL:mary478@gmail.com
ATTN: Dearly Beloved,
This communication to you is strictly confidential, with due
respect.Sorry at this perceived confusion or stress you may have
receiving thisletter from me, Since we have not known ourselves or met
previously.Despite that, I am constrained to write you this letter
because of the urgency of it.By way of self introduction, I am Mrs.
Mary Kobe,the wife of late Brigadier - Gen.Maxwell Kobe former ECOMOG
ARMY COMMANDER [West African peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone] who
died in the Sierra Leone civil disturbance [War]. My three daughters
and I are trapped in obnoxious custom and traditional norms. We have
suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the hands of my late
husband's family,simply because I did not bear a male child [heir
apparent] for my late husband.
By tradition, all that my late husband had!, [wealth] belongs to
his brothers/family.And myself is to be remarried by his immediate
younger brother which I vehemently refused.They have taken all that I
suffered with my husband to acquire including treasures, houses and his
bank particular seized by them. I wanted to escape to the United State
of America [USA} with my children on exile, but again they conspired
and stole my international passport and other traveling document to
further
frustrate me. Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code [KTC}
from a security & Finance Company abroad, that my late husband
maintains a saftey deposit box of high value with
this company and i am the next of kin sotherefore i should make
necessary arrangements to come for the claim of the box.It has
therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact someone,a
foreigner like you to help me receive/secure the consignment while we i
and my children find a way of getting out to meet with you in your
country.
consignment was kept on an "OPEN BENEFICIARY MANDATE" with
the Security Company to avoid detection, seizure or diversion. I have
had several telephone discussions with the Assistant Director of the
security company, who has expressed willingness to help me on meeting
the company's demands. This is why I have contacted you to help save my
children and I, receive/secure the safety box on our behalf. But, you
would need to give me sufficient assurance that if you help me,you
would not divert its contents which i will reveal to you as this is an
information known only to me and no one else.My children and I have
resolved to give you a certain percentage for your honest assistance to
us and i shall open up to you as i have to be careful for this is the
only way i and my children stand to live better lives.
This is all my children and I have got to live on. Please! , I have
reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not disappoint me. I
look forward to your urgent response, including your private phone /
mobile No and also your fax no for easier communication.
NB: The secret codes (e.g Pin No., Secret Access Code) for the box are
safely kept with me which I will give you as soon as you express desire
to help me.
Stay blessed.
MARY KOBE.
ALTERNATIVE E-MAIL:mary478@gmail.com
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