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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: "Douglas Tetteh" <tetteh.douglas3@gmail.com>
Reply-To: douglas.tetteh51@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 18:18:07 +0000
Subject: Greeting
Dear Sir,
First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction and i pray that
my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval considering the
fact that we have
not known each other before now. I wish to use this opportunity to introduce
myself to
you. I am Douglas Tetteh from Sudan, I am 26 years old. I write to inform
you about my
desire to invest and to buy a living house in your country. I am the first
son of Mr. David
Tetteh. My father was a diamond/gold merchant in Sudan before his untimely
death. My
father was shot and killed by the Sudan rebels on his way traveling out of
country with two
of my younger sister's due to Present political crisis that is taking place
in our country
Sudan.
My sisters died on the spot while U.N. peace keeping force rescued my
father. He was taken
to hospital for medical treatment where he later died. Before he died he
revealed to me and
my mother about a trunk box containing 12,000.000 million us dollars [twelve
million
u.s.dollars] which he deposited with a security company in Ghana for safe
keeping. My
father did not disclose the content of the trunk box to the security
company. Instead, he
deposited it as family treasures. Presently my mother and I are here in
Ghana to notify the
security company for the claims, and we are staying in the refugee camp. I
am contacting
you for an assistant to secure this claim, with regard, i will also want you
to advise me on
how best we can invest this money. My father told me that it is dangerous to
invest this
money in Africa to avoid suspicions, and due to market instability coupled
with economic
and political instability facing African countries.
That is why we want to invest abroad. For your mutual assistance, my mother
and I have
agreed that percentage will be share in a good faith. We have all the vital
documents
covering the deposit and the ownership which i can send to you through fax
on request.
Note: I have never disclosed this to any person apart from you. So please,
kindly keep this
transaction as a top secret to yourself alone. I am waiting for your urgent
and positive
response.
Best regards,
Douglas Tetteh
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