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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: "franckdanga Gazeta.pl" <franckdanga@gazeta.pl>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:47:18 +0000
Subject: Dearest One,
*Dearest One,*
*Although we have not met, and I decided to contact you for assistance. I
was, until recently, a final year engineering student of the University of
Sierra Leone,West Africa. Early in January 2001 , the rebels in my country
struck our township and killed my parents in one of their attacks. *
*My late father, Honorable Vincent Danga , being the director of sierra
leone daimond and gold minner cooperation was a prime target.Fortunately for
me, I was in school when the attack took place. I equally lost my only
sister to the rebels. When I got home for the remains of my parents and the
subsequent burial that followed, I discovered adocument indicating that my
late father had deposited some $27 Million United States Dollar with one of
the security company here in abidjan cote d'ivorie. This money, according to
the document, was meant for the building of an ultra morden hospital in
memory of my grand father by my late father,when I complete my studies. Upon
the discovery of this document, I travelled to the cote d'ivorie to trace
the security company and to make claims for the said money as the only
surviving next of kin to my father. *
*But deliberatley, I have kept all my uncles and Aunts out of the issue as
none of them will be happy to know I am in possession of such money. I have
succeded in making the people at the security company believe that I am the
next of Kin and all the documents related to this are now with me. And I do
not know what to do with it, but I have decided to contact you to seek your
assistance in helping me to take it out to your country and help me to come
to your country to continue my education and you will help me to get the
money invested until such a time that I will be ready to begin to use it. *
*I am really desperate as I am the only one know in my family.please,Let me
know what you want as compensation for helping me to solve this my problem,
because the security company said that they will not release the cash trunk
box a lone for me unless i get involve of my father late business associate
because accordinding to my late father they said that he deposited the cash
trunk box un behalf of his foreign business associate but he did not mention
any name of the person and i dont know the person, so please let me use you
as my late father foreign associate in orther for them to release this cash
trunk box for us.*
*But most importantly,I seriously appeal that you maintain high level of
secrety and confidentiality in the whole thing.Please I know that, this
letter may sound strange and incredible to you, Therefore i need an
immediate positive consideration and reply to me through this my address.
I remain yours sincerely,*
*Franck Danga*
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