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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: "michelle kouassi" <michelk85@fastwebmail.it>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:09:58 +0000
Subject: Dear Respected One,
Dear Respected One,
my private email ; (mich_kouassi707@yahoo.fr)
May the peace & love of God be & dwell with you and your family,
My name is Miss Michelle kouassi an ivorien citizen,the only daughter to the
late Mr williams kouassi, he was the serving director of the Agro-exporting
board cote d'ivoire until his untimely death,
He was asassinated last January by his personal secretary during one of
their Board meetings in France,I inherited a total sum of [15.5 million
dollars] from my late father,
this money which is concealed in a metallic trunk box is deposited with a
security and finance company here in Cote d'Ivoire.
Due to the instruction he laid down before he deposited the box, that he
needed maximum security & safety of the trunk box and no body nor government
organization can trace where about of the box until i;m ready to claim it,
This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a family treasure,This
means that the security company does not know the content of this trunk box,
My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you
and perhaps trustworthy to give you this priority of shipping the box of
money to any address that you think is very secure and save in your country
with your percentage of which we shall deliberate on,
In fact since the death of my father, his brothers has been seriously
chasing me around with constant treats trying to suppress me so that they
might have the documents of his landed properties and confiscate them,
They have successfully collected all his properties, yet they never stopped
there, they told me to surrender all bank accounts of my late father which I
did, But I never disclose to them this deposit with the security company in
Abidjan-Cote d'Ivoire, Because this is where my future,education and destiny
lies upon,
The family of my late father is never aware of the secret existence of this
deposit which my late father made with the security company and they can
never be aware of it,
Out of fear of my late father's family and when the situation becomes
uncontrollable because of pressure on me from the them,
I decide to look for a trustworthy person who could assist me retrieve this
box of money from the security company for onward lodgement into his account
for the purpose of future investment, Consider my situation as a small girl
and come to my rescue,
I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear from
you soon,
Wishing you the best of luck,
Michelle kouassi.
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