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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: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:21:41 +0100
Subject: Good Friend
=C2=A0Hello.
Good Day and how are you and your family as well as your work? I hope fin=
e. Please, I am very sorry to bother you with my problem. Please know tha=
t it's not by mistake I am contacting you but by the special grace of God=
and for your kind assistance.
=C2=A0
My name is Saadia Boni from Benin Republic.=20
I am 18 years old and the only child of my late parents late {Hon. and Mr=
s. Gabriel Boni} I do not know my mother, she died when I was a baby.
=C2=A0My father established his cocoa business in Benin, and he died shor=
tly of heart attack his death has now made me orphan and i am exposed to =
danger.
=C2=A0
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 which he deposit=
ed with a Finance Vault as a family treasure. Since the death of my fathe=
r, my uncles have sent me out of our house, they said that i am a female =
child that i do not have any rite in the family and they call is their cu=
stom.=20
I am presently living with a certain pastor and his family here in Benin.
My father said he used my name as his only child as his next of kin to th=
e deposit and in case he fails to make it that I should take care of myse=
lf and get someone to help invest the money for me.
=C2=A0I have all the papers with me here, my father did not disclose the =
content of the deposit to the Finance Vault to avoids the officials from =
raising eye brows to the funds.
=C2=A0
Presently I have contacted the Finance Vault about my claim but they told=
me that my father made an agreement with the company management that the=
y should not release the deposit to me until I am 30 years and without a =
foreign partner that is why i am seeking for your assistance to help me s=
tand before the Finance Vault as my foreign beneficiary partner or my gua=
rdian to receive the deposit in your country so that i can come over to m=
eet you and continue my education.
=C2=A0
Please help me and stand for me as my guardian and contact the Finance Va=
ult.
I will love it most if you will come down here so that after the transact=
ion i will go back with you to your country for a better future.=20
=C2=A0
I am willing to offer to you 15% of the total sum as a compensation for y=
our help and you are still going to be the one to help me with the invest=
ment of this money since i do not have any idea about investment.
=C2=A0
Expecting your soonest respond at: saadiabon@gmail.com .
Thank you and God bless you.
Truly,
Saadia Boni.
=C2=A0
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