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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: williamsamani2001@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 09:31:24 +0000
Subject: From Prince Williams Amani/Appeal for Assistance.
*From Prince Williams Amani/Appeal for Assistance. *
*Refugee Camp, 23 Rue Des Republicain,
Koumassi 17 bp.1246 Abidjan 17
Abidjan-Cote D'ivoire *
*Dearest one (Foreign Investment Project Assistant)** *
*
Devine Greeting to you, I'm Prince Williams Amani 19yrs old student from
Sierra Leone . *
*It is my pleasure to contact you for help in investing my inheritance in
your country for my security through your financial support to me as a
foreign business partner to my late father to open a new joint
foreign account or provide a valid account to retrieve this suspense deposit
funds with a bank here in Abidjan, for my identification, I am the
surviving son of the late Chief Venantius L.Amani, my late father
was poisoned to death while in detention by the ruling government after he
was accused of lifting large quantity of crude without proper account to the
government of sierra Leone. *
* *
*I came across your contact while searching for investment opportunity where
to secure and put this funds into for security purposes to avoid government
eye on it because my late father, I read about your business firm and wishes
to contact you to stand as my appointed beneficiary/trustee to my late
father's bank for the release of my inheritance which was already drafted
for onward transfer by my late before he was arrested and poisoned, his
arrest was suspected to be linked by his wicked brothers who took bribe and
now they are planning to kill in other to claim my late father's properties
that belongs to me now. *
* *
*My late father before he died owes a shipping vessel company which he and
deposited the sum (US$18, 300,000.00) for foreign investment project with
one of the bank here in Cote d'Ivoire where I am presently purposely for
this funds, my father has drafted this funds for foreign investment project
before he died suddenly and now this draft is still with this banks and has
been approved to be paid via master card of my choice in overseas, Please i
am requesting for your help to serve as my guardian beneficiary who will
receive this funds for me, I have prayed before contacting you with the
trust that you will help me with my situation, since it will be profitable
to you in future, I'm seeking for your assistance in contacting the bank as
my beneficiary to enable the bank to credit this funds to a foreign master
card account. *
* *
*I have submitted the deposit certificates of this funds and my identity as
instructed by my late father to this bank, and they informed me what will be
required for the release of this funds by which we have to legalised and
normalise this documents at the judicial court and embassy for security and
recording purposes, you will be entitled to profit 20% of this funds which
will be under your management until i grew up. *
* *
*This bank has informed me that this payment will be paid via swift
atm transfer to a foreign account and it is 100% risk free, that
all required to is to open a non resident domiciliary checking account into
my beneficiary names in other to do the change of ownership and download the
draft with your name into an atm master card, and i believe this project
will lead us to a good relationship and partnership, all i need is your
maximum assistant to secure this funds and relocate me out of Africa because
of my terrible situation and as soon as you receive this mail contact me
urgently and also forward details of respond to E-mail : (
williamsamani2001@yahoo.fr <williamsamani63@yahoo.fr>) for more details as
this project will be very profitable if we work together with good faith,
The bank here is ready to transfer the money to the foreign account i have
to open in the country where i want to relocate, Please contact me urgently
because i am stranded at the moment in the camp, I would be glad if you call
me to proof your interest to help my situation from here. *
* *
*Call me for further communication + *
* *
*Truly Yours *
* *
*Williams Amani Junior.*
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