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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: "frank weh" <fraweh7@hosanna.net>
Reply-To: fraweh@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:08:51 +0000
Subject: From Frank
From Frank
Cote D'Ivoire
Dear
I am writting you this letter with due respect and heart full of tears i
need your help, and with assurance that you will help me to transfer this
issue, I am the only Son of late Mr and Mrs Wehtarbah. My father was a very
rich and wealthy Gold Trader in Monrovia the Capital of republic of Liberia
in West Africa ,I want to let you know that my father was poisoned by his
business associates while my mother died when i am little as a resault of
political crisis and my father took me so special because I am his only son.
Before the death of my father on 2nd july 2007 in a hospital here in cote
d'ivoire, he told me that he has the sum of (Five Point Five million u.s
dollars ) which he deposited in a bank here in Cote D'ivoire. he made this
money from the sales of Gold, He also told me that it was because of this
money he was poiso ned by his business patners while on a business trip with
them and he instructed me to look for a foreign partner who will help me
transfer this money out of republic of Cote Divoire and invest it for me, my
purpose of contacting you is for you to help transfer this money to your
country before this people who kill my father will kill me , this people who
kill my father are after my life and they want to kill me and collect the
this money from me , that is why I'm now hiding my self here in republic of
Cote Divoire so that they will not see me, Please i need your urgent help,
Tell me how much percentage you will take in the total money of the Five
Piont Five Million USD Dolars to help me in transfering this money to your
bank and help me also to invest the money in your country, but you have to
assure me that you will help me fully to transfer the money to your account
,l hope you will not betray the trust i have on you because this money is my
only hope in this life ,and moreover you will also help me to come over to
your country were i will settel down for my life and continue my
education, while you invest this money for me. i can assure you there is No
regrate in helping me, this money is an inheritance from my late father,
I Await your reply,
Greetings to you and your Family
Frank Wehtarbah
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