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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 Grace Cook" <mrsgracecook5050@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mrsgracecook@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 07:16:30 -0700
Subject: CRAVE YOUR INDULGENCE,
CRAVE YOUR INDULGENCE,
Greetings to you in the most wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. His richest blessings shall be upon you forever.
I am Mrs. GRACE COOK, I am 51 years old from the Netherlands, I am deaf and suffering from a long time cancer of the Lungs which also affected my brain, from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that, according to my doctors they have advised me that I live for the next two months, this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage.
I was brought up from a motherless babies home, was married to my late husband for twenty years without a child. My husband died in a fatal motor accident. Before his death we were true Christians. Since his death I decide not to re-marry, I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of (8.5 million Euros) with a reputable bank as a fixed deposit amount with interest and most of the interest has gone into my hospital bills. Presently, this money is still with them and the management just wrote me as the true owner to come forward to receive the money for keeping it so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they get it confiscated.
Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital where I have been under going treatment for cancer of the lungs. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live. It is my last wish to see that this money is invested to any organization of your choice and distributed each year among the charity organization, the poor and the motherless baby's home where I came from. I want you God fearing, to also use this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows.
I took this decision, before I rest in peace because my time will soon be up. I decided to make this contact on my one week medical trip treatment to South Africa. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Bank. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will empower you to act as my next of kin and the new beneficiary of my fund. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.
I shall wait at your prayerful reply. Please reply me via my direct e-mail account at mrsgracecook@gmail.com . In case I die before I get your reply my lawyer shall attend to your response to this mail and shall guide you on how to get in touch with my bank only on your presentation of a copy of this letter to him. He is aware of this letter but will like to re-confirm it by asking a copy of it from you.
Yours in His Service,
Mrs. GRACE COOK
Email:mrsgracecook@gmail.com
My Lawyer: Barrister Jerrom Ellis
Lawyers Phone: +27 780120470
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