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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: Peter Johnson <johnsonpeter69@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 03:35:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Your Urgent Respond.
Dear Sir/Madam,
=A0 l am sorry to contact you this way,please do
not be angry at me,because i know that there are some many emails which
my have come your way like this.
My name is Johnson Peter,l am the
only child of my parent,my father Mr Smith=A0 Atarri Peter was the
Managing Director of Gold Mining Company here in Ghana,
my late
father=A0 died thruogh a car accident=A0 five months ago when he was coming
back from work,he was later buried,after the burial,
the family of
my late father, came and take all our properties and drove me and my
mother, Mrs Ellena Peter out of the house and took everything from
us.They did this evil because they hate me and my mother.My late father
married my mother from a Liberia refugee Camp and the family where
against it,that is why they don want us.
After the death of my
father, my mother handle over to me a document and told me that my late
father has Deposited 5.6Million US Dollars in a one trunk box as a
consignment in a Security Company here,as if he knows what his family
will do this to us,
which
i am the next of kin to the consignment,but when i went to the security
company for the claim,they told me,that i can not claim the
consignment,that=A0 it is only a foreign beneficiary who can assist me to
claim the consignment and to be deliver to the beneficiary in his or
her country,so that the person can receive it for me and send for me,
to come to his or her country when he have receive the consignment box
from the security company,so that the beneficiary can take me to his or
her country to use the money to invest for me and send me back to
school,just as my father want for me.Due to the situation we are
facing,i lost my mother just three weeks ago.
l am now left alone
and am living with an old woman who offer to keep me in her house
untill i find helper. This is the reason why i have contacted you to
help me to contact the security comapny to do claim of the consignment
for me,so that you can receive it for me in your country,after that you
will now send for me.pls l am waiting for your reply. Johnson Peter.=A0=20
=A0=0A=0A=0A
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