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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: Mensah Olivia <mensaholivia100@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mensaholivia@live.com
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 10:11:10 -0800 (PST)
Subject: hello dear,
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mensaholivia100@yahoo.com
- Hello Dear,How is your life over there? I hope all is well with you I am happy to writing to seek for your help. I contacted you because I saw your contact and pick interest in you to ask for assistance because I so much believe that you will be of good help to me ,I hope that color, distance or age will not be a barrier to you in tams of assistance which I want you to render to me. My Full name is olivia mensah , 24 years old girl, fair in complexion, 5.4 cm, 63kg , I am an undergraduate, I believe that this our relationship which we are about to build is the direction of God.I am a citizen of Rep. of Sudan, Africa, but I am not presently in Sudan now, I am now in Accra Ghana , (Refugee camp) I am contacting you now with a breaking heart, faith and trust which I believe that you will not let me down, please handle this matter as yours till the successful end,I am olivia mensah,the daughter of Dr& Mrs Jean mensah From Sudan am now in refugee here in Ghana due to the death of my parents because of the war in my country in Sudan. In this Refugee camp we are only allowed to go out only on Mondays and Fridays of the weeks. It’s just like one staying in the prison and I hope by God's grace you will help me to come out here soon. I don't have any relatives now whom i can go to, all my relatives ran away in the middle of the war I am contacting you to seek for your assistance regarding the fund which was deposited by my late Father Dr. Jean mensah in a privet self keeping vaults here in Ghana which worth of $8.5milion, I want you to help me in standing as my fathers foreign associate who this fund is meant for so that you will make arrangement for me on how to come over and continue my education,because my parents was killed by the rebels in my country due to the war.As a refugee here I don't have any right or privilege to any thing be it money or whatever because it is against the laws of this country (ghana).I want to go back to my studies because I only attended my first year as a law student before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place. Please listen to this, i will give you all of my late father's Fund deposit documents, because when he was alive he deposited it as a family precious item meant for his business associates in oversee . So, I will like you to help me stand as my fathers foreign associate and claim this money so that once you claim it from it you will send some money for me to get my traveling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you. I kept this secret to people in the camp here the only person that knows about it now is you and my lawyer because I believe that you will be of assistance to me.So,in the light of above I will like you to keep it to yourself and don't relate it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people gets to know about it. So pleas I will like you to get back to me if you will be torched to assist me to claim this fund and give me your number so that i can call you.Thanks olivia mensah
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