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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: philipcolle@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:00:24 -0500
Subject: FROM PHILIP COLE
Dearest One,
Good morning, how are you and your family as well as your
work? I hope fine. Please, I am very sorry to bother you
with my problem. Please know that it's not by mistake I am
contacting you but by the special grace of God.
My name is philip cole from nigeria . I am 17years old and
the only child of my late parents late {Chief and Mrs.
Gabriel cole} I do not know my mother, she died when i was a
baby.
My father established his cocoa business in Accra Ghana, and
he died shortly of heart attack his death has now made me
orphan and i am exposed to danger.
Before the unfortunate death of my father,he called me on
his bedside and reveal to me about some funds $9.5 million
U.S.Dollars and gold dust which he kept inside two metallic
boxes which he deposited with a Security Company here in
accra ghana as a family treasure.
Since the death of my father, my uncles have sent me out of
our house, they said that i am a small child that i do not
have any rite in the family and they call is their custom.
I am presently living with a certain pastor and his family
here in Ghana.
My father said he used my name as his only child as his next
of kin to the deposit and in case he fails to make it that I
should take care of myself and get someone to help invest
the money for me. I have all the papers with me here and the
key to the boxes, my father did not disclose the content of
the two trunk boxes to the security company to avoids the
officials from raising eye brows to the funds.
Presently I have contacted the security company about my
claim of the trunk boxes but the security company told me
that my father made an agreement with the company management
that they should not release the two trunk boxes to me
without a foreign partner that is why i am seeking for your
assistance to help me stand before the company as my foreign
beneficiary partner or my guardian to receive the trunk
boxes in your country so that i can come over to meet you
and continue my education.
Please help me and stand for me as my guardian and contact
the security company.
I will love it most if you will come down here so that after
the transaction i will go back with you to your country for
a better future.
I am willing to offer to you 15% of the total sum as a
compensation for your help and you are still going to be the
one to help me with the investment of this money since i do
not have any idea about investment.
please kindly get back to me along with your phone number,
and your full name, and your age, your sex, your posstion in
your office, and your country.
Expecting your soonest respond.
Thank you and God bless you.
Truly philip cole.
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