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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: "george kobby" <kobbyy01@naseej.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:17:38 +0300
Subject: greetings
Good day,
We are corporate & investment Consultants acting as solicitors for one
Dr. Avril Cummings, former commissioner for Income Tax of Republic of
Sierra Leone. My client is presently residing in Accra, Ghana as a
refugee due to political and legal problems he is having with the
government of Sierra Leone under President Tejan Kabbah.
My client was falsely accused of fraud and subsequently the
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) headed by Commissioner Val T. Collier
slapped a phony corruption charges on him and an arrest warrant was
issued on him. My client is a man of affluence, no doubt about that.
He had acquired enormous wealth, no doubt about that.
But his wealth was not acquired illegally neither had he solicited,
accepted or taken any illegal advantage as falsely accused by the
Anti-Corruption Commission. As fate would have it, my client was
fortunate to escape from Sierra Leone and now resides as a refugee in
Ghana. His enemies whotraced where he was residing as a refugee here
in Ghana due to later killed him the corroboration of some high
government officers.
In the course of his departure from Sierra Leone he was fortunate to
have arrived in Ghana wit reasonable quantity of precious minerals and
cash amount of $9,000,000.00 USD (Nine Million us dollar) My client
Son will be prepared to finance your project or enter into a joint
venture with you subject to a due diligence period of one week to
thoroughly study your business plan etc. To that effect I, being the
attorney will like to join hand with you and get this fund transferred
into your account. Also I want you to note that the fund was kept in
the bank vault,
and that it is our responsibility to clear out any hindrance that
would delay the smooth transfer of the fund. Please percentage is
negotiable upon your reply.Please be mindful that the fund is of no
criminal origin. The transfer and investment is necessitated due to
politicalinstability in the region. Please let us know by returned
mail/fax if we could be of some help in financing your project. Hope
to hear from you.
Sincerely yours.
george kobby
kobbyy1010@yahoo.com.hk
بريد نسيج http://mail.naseej.com
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