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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" <marykobe22@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 23:22:53 +0100
Subject: Dearly Beloved
E-mail:mary478@gmail.com <E-mail%3Amary478@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 this letter
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 safety
deposit box of high value with this company and i am the next of kin so
therefore 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.
The 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.
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