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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)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:31:42 +0100
Subject: Letter from Vincent Dam,
Letter from Vincent Dam,
In Cotonou the Capital of Benin.
Reply to email;
vincentdamprivate@gmail.com
Dear, Sir,
Transfer of my inheritance funds ($5.6 M USD) to your country.
I do not know you in person, I got your contact via personal research on a
responsible and honest person that I can trust with all my life and I
hope you
will forgive me for that.
My name is Vincent Dam the only son of my family, I lost my father on a car
accident first week of last month, and after my father burial three weeks
ago,
my father attorney called all my late fathers family member to read my
father's
will in the present of everybody in the family, and in that will, my father
left ($5.6 M. USD) in my name as next of kin since am the only son and then
left his small company to his family members to manage it until I finish my
education then I can take control of everything.
Three days after, my father attorney called me and handed over a letter to
me
writing and sign by my late father in that letter, my father explained to me
what killed my mother when I was 4 years old that his brothers poisoned her
because she was from a Muslim family and ever since my father get
married to my
mother his family develop hatred to her because they are against Muslim in
their religion, my father also advised me in that letter that I should be
very
careful with his brothers whenever his no more because his elder brother
love
money so much that he can do anything to get it any time, also his jealous
of
him since is the only man in the family that has little wealth, meanwhile
for
the past one week now they are after me because they want to use me
and get the
money in the bank so they can release to them, so when I discovered that I
run
out of the house leaving now with my school friend as I write this mail they
are busy searching for me.
For this reason I personally decided to contact you with the support
of my late
father's attorney so that this fund will be transferred into your account in
abroad where you can help me to invest it as well to enable me continue my
education life.
Please if you can help me let me know so that I will tell my father's
attorney
to arrange the necessary legal documents for the fund to be transferred to
you
then I will come over to meet with you in your country to continue my
education.
May the good lord bless you as you accept me in your family.
Vincent Dam.
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