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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: "Brenda Akum" <brenda.akum4@gmail.com>
Reply-To: br_akum01@yahoo.es
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:57:46 +0200
Subject: From Miss Brenda Akum, I will be very happy to hear from you
*Miss. Brenda Akum*
*Reform Church of God
23/24 Cocody Avenue
AbidjanCote divoire*
* *
*Dear Sir,*
* *
*I know this mail will come to you as a surprise since we have not had
previouscorrespondence, please bear with me. I will really like to have a
good relationship with you, and I have a special reason why I decided to
contact you.
I am Miss Brenda Akum 20 years of age from Abidjan CotedéIvoire only
daughter of Late Dr. & Mrs. Lokko Akum, who was assasinated in November
2007 last year here in Abidjan Ivory Coast due to political uprising.*
*My father was formerly the director of cocoa processing and exporting
company here in Abidjan the capital city. It was after their death that I
was made to know that Dr. & Mrs. Lokko Akum do not have a child but they
adopted me to be their child. At this very moment the family do not want to
accept me again, they have seized all our properties and out of fear to
save my life I have to run to an orphanage camp under the reform church of
God to hide myself.*
*Now as a legally adopted child, I had wanted to follow the legal way but
the Church Pastor made me to realized that I may loose my life after all
since I do not know the source of the death of my step parents.*
*Here in the orphanage camp, I took some my late fathers files where I
discovered deposite documents of Five Million Five hundred Thousand US
Dollars U$5,500,000.00 deposited by my late step Parents and used my name as
the next of kin in depositing the money. I ran to the bank fast with the
documents and it was confirmed by the bank Manager that such deposite was
made by my late father but because of my age I can not have access to the
money yet unless I present a guardian who will stand for me and receive the
money.*
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*Please, I am not mandating you but humbly seeking your kind understanding
to this matter and stand as my legal guardian and trustee and help me to
receive and invest this fund in your country, you will also assist me to
come over there for my studies. I wait for your mail if you are pleased to
assist me.*
*God bless you
Miss Brenda Akum.*
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