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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: "Fillomina Williams" <fillominawilliams5@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: wfillo1@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:07:29 +0100
Subject: I need your urgent help pls!!!
*Greetings My Dearest one,*
* *
*Good day and how are you today? I hope you are fine i desire of asking you
to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what i want
to tell you. *
* *
*I'm Fillomina Williams I am 22 years the only daughter of Late Mr. & Mrs.
Ben Collins Williams. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here in
Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire. He was shut to death by his
business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. my mother
died when i am a baby and that made my father took me so special. *
* *
*Before the death of my father in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he
secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Four
Million Eight Hundred Thousand United State Dollars USD ( $4,800.000.00 )
which he deposited in a suspense account in one of the big banks here in
Abidjan. *
* *
*He told me that he used my name as the next of Kin in depositing the money.
He then strongly advised me not to seek for assistance in the investment of
the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a
foreign partner from any country of my choice (outside our country,Cote
D'Ivoire) that willl assist me in the wise investment of the money since
the money is in the bank with the view of making use of it for investment
purposes after my education carrier here. *
* *
*I have also vacated from my father's house due to my safety, and as i am
writting to you now, i am currently staying in a church with one Pastor
Michael whom acepted me to stay in his church for the mean time after i have
explained everything that happened to me and my condition of life at the
moment. i want to stay here in thisch church temporary until i finds someone
that will be of good help to me I want to transfer this money out and use it
for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel management. *
* *
*Because of this i am honorably seeking your assistance in the following
ways: *
* *
*(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me transfer the money into
your bank account. *
* *
*(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my
education and then settle there parmanently. *
* *
*If you accept to stand as my guardian or foster parent to me, i need not to
discuss any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours
and then assist me invest it. But if you still want a percentage, i am
willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your
assistance. *
* *
*Please tell me how you feel about the percentage i offered, if is not ok by
you. As soon as i receive your concrete assurance to assist me with the
proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, i will then give
you the bank contact information where the money is still lying unclaimed so
that you can contact them for more clearifications also to proceed and
transfer the money into your account while i come over to stay with you
parmanently after the transfer of the fund. *
* *
*The bank will then proceed and communicate with you on the transfer. You
shall then give me information on when thetransfer will be over.i shall also
send my picture to you and shall also need yours too. *
* *
*No matter what your decision may turn out to be,please i plead you to keep
this highly secret for my safety, as i believe that those that killed my
father are still after me.
Thanks and God bless you . *
*Best regards *
*Fillomina Williams*
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