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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: grace harlow <graceharlow1054@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:44:27 +0000
Subject: Your Response Needed
Dear Friend.
Greetings in the name of God / Allah, Please let this not sound strange
to you, for my family lawyer who would have handled this executor ship
of my will on my behalf, died early this year after a protracted
illness. I prayed and got your email ID from your country's guest book.
I am Mrs. Grace Harlow from Oman, 58 years old. I am suffering from a
protracted cancer of the lungs, which has also affected my brain cells
as a result of complications. From all indication my condition is
really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that, according to my
doctor I have been advised that I may not live for the next two months,
this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a critical and life
threatening stage.
I was brought up in an orphanage home as a child of circumstance,
having been abandoned at birth by my teenage biological mother and
taken to an orphanage home by a Good Samaritan. I was married to my
late husband Mr. Gamal Harlow for twenty years without a child. My
husband was hypertensive and died of cardiac arrest.
Since my husbands death I decided not to re-marry, when my ailment
became terrible, I sold off all our choice properties and personal
belongings including a shopping mall, an hotel, shares, bonds,
jewelries and other valuable family treasures and deposited the
proceeds amounting to USD$10.2million dollars with First Inland Bank
Plc. Presently, this money is still lodged with the Bank, and the
management and board of directors of the bank just wrote me as the sole
owner to come forward to receive the money after having kept it for so
long a time in their coffers, or that I can issue a letter of
authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can not
come over and claim the funds due largely to my illness or they get it
confiscated.
Presently, I'm writing you with my laptop in a hospital in Switzerland,
located at fulham road in west Switzerland. It is the leading cancer
treatment hospital in the world. I have been undergoing treatment for
cancer of the lungs. My doctors like i said earlier told me that I have
only two months to live. It is my last wish therefore to see that 70%
of this money which amounts to usd$7,140,000.00 (seven million one
hundred and forty thousand dollars only) is invested to any
organization of your choice and distributed each year among charitable
Organizations, the poor and the motherless babies homes. You can also
extend to churches and mosques, if you wish. 30% of the money which
amounts to usd$3,060,000.00(three million sixty thousand dollars only)
is for your personal use.
I want you as a God fearing person, to take it upon yourself and use
this money for the aforementioned purposes, i took this decision in
other to help humanity in my little capacity, before I rest in peace in
the bosom of the almighty, because according to my physicians my time
will soon be up. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the
official contact of the First Inland Bank plc officials, to enable you
reach them without delays. I will also issue you a letter of
authorization that will prove you as the new beneficiary of my will.
The funds have an open beneficiary mandate, and as such it is whom I
authorize to act on my behalf that the bank will recognize and release
the funds to. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I
stated herein.
Please reply me through these my private email
Address:graceharlow@live.com
Hoping to hear from you soon.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Grace Harlow
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