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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: mrsaminajohnson@live.com
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:58:27 -0800
Subject: Beloved Friend in the Lord,
*Beloved Friend in the Lord,
Greetings in the name of God, Pls let this not sound strange to you for my
only surviving lawyer who would have done this died early this year, I
prayed and got your E-mail I'd from your country's guestbook which I have
been going through since the death of my late husband in search of a God
fearing person to whom I will entrust my inheritance fund to his or her hand
that will not betray my intention.
I am Mrs. Amina Johnson from Switzerland, I am 40 years old, suffering from
a long time cancer of the lungs, from all indication my conditions is really
deteriorating and it is quite obvious according to my doctors that I may not
live so long, this is because the my cancer stage has gotten to a very bad
stage.
I was brought up from a motherless babies home as an orphan, married to my
late husband Engineer William Johnson for twenty years without a child. My
husband Eng. William died in a Belleview plan crash on Sunday October 23,
2005, since his death, I decided not to re-marry and sold all my inherited
belongings and deposited the sum of TEN MILLION U.S DOLLARS (US$10.M) with
FIRST INLAND BANK PLC. *
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* *Presently, this money is still with the bank, and the manager of the bank
MR. ERNEST OJI just wrote me recently to come forward to receive the money,
for keeping it so long will amount of loosing the money or rather issue My
letter of authorization to somebody of my choice to receive it on my behalf
since I can not come over to them because of my illness or consider the
money confisticated.
Nevertheless, I'm with my laptop on my hospital bed here in Switzerland
where I has been undergoing treatment for my cancer of the lungs.
It is My best wish to see that this money is invested to any charitable
organization of your choice, and use part of it to promote Christianity or
Islam and as well as distributing each year among the widows, less
privileges, orphanages and the motherless babies home across your country.
I want you as God-fearing person to assure me that you will also
utilize this fund accordingly as I stated herein without deviating from My
heart desire?.
I took this decision, before I rest in peace due to what I gone through
during my days of up bringing as an orphan.
As soon as I receive your reply with your information, I will use them to
write and send my letter of authorization that will prove you as the next
beneficiary of my fund to the FIRST INLAND BANK PLC where I deposited this
fund on your behalf.*
**
*Thereafter, give you the contact of the bank to enable you contact them on
the matter and I will also issue you my a letter of authorization for your
perusal.*
**
*For your interest and readiness to carry out this divine project on my
behalf, get back to me immediately on: mrsaminajohnson@live.com.
Thanks for understanding, while hoping to receive your immediate reply.
Yours beloved Sister in the Lord,
MRS.AMINA JOHNSON*
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