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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: "Ali Yusuf" <aliyu3@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:56:04 -0700
Subject: YOUR URGENT REPLY PLEASE
Good day and hope this finds you well, I got your mail through a
colleague of yours to inform you of an urgent transaction understanding you
may find interesting and also duelly benefit from. I am Ali Mohammed yusuf
an indigen of Jos, plateau state. A family man with two children Aisha and
salisu. Presently I am working with bashiru and son haulage transport. To be
precise, I have an uncle that is very wealthy that saw me through in my
college days and has great love and affection of trust for me but he is a
widower without a child but rather was very found of me.
He is Alhaji dauda gote the chief executive officer of Gote merchandise
(a partnership venture in which he has the highest share capital, they
operate a cement factory which he is managing, but due to a perceived
government threat to nationalize the cement factory, they unanimously agreed
to sell it out on the sum of USD500, 000,000(five hundred millions us
dollars) and was subsequently shared among the three of them thus, my uncle
is getting his own share of USD200, 000,000(Two hundred million us dollars)
which is currently deposited into his bank account with zenith bank
plc.tohis colleague knowing that he has no family they conspired to
eliminate him
through a poisonous injection , right on his hospital bed, he sent for me
and inform me that he used my name as his next of kin to the sum of money
in the bank after which he gave up the ghost . these colleague of his ,
finding out about about the sudden next of kin then decide to put him out of
the picture ,but luckily to me ,because of my uncle kind gesture to the
staffs, the financial controller of the branch decided to help me by
transferring the money outside the country to any foreign hand trusted
account for the safe keeping and onward use as soon as possible. My sincere
request is that can I trust and rely on your faithfulness,
I can assure you of no risk involve in it just send me an account number
that this money can be transferred to immediately because I am presently
under hiding for the sake of my safety. You are not going to be left without
being dully been compensated for your charitable assistance, thus I then
decided that a 40percent of the total sum will be yours after the
transaction have been made, it is just you paying yourself through your
account and keeping mine till when I come over. Please if I can trust you
just the way I was told about your magnanimity and honesty of person,
because I am presently under pressure. Thanks for your understanding and
anticipating your spirited responds soonest. You can reach me via *
aliyusuf70@yahoo.co.uk.*May Allah remember you at all times.
Your Sincerely,
Ali Mohammed Yusuf
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