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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: "Mr. Jorge Arroyo"<jorgearroyoxx@aol.com>
Reply-To: <jorgearroyoxxx@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 03:12:43 +0100
Subject: I need you to get back to me {urgently}!!!
Dear Friend,
I am the confidant of the Ex-President of the Ecuador (President Lucio
Gutierrez) who was recently removed from power and presently granted
Political asylum in Brazil with strict instruction not to leave Brazil. You
can see links below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4467389.stm
http://lanic.utexas.edu/info/newsroom/ecremoved.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/23/international/americas/23ecuador.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
He has secretly informed me to seek for a genuine and kind hearted person who
will be able to claim and invest the sum of $43.5Million United States Dollars
which he had secretly deposited with a private financial organization before the
incident that resulted in his fleeing for asylum. The new Government is trying
all efforts to seize all funds that belong to the former President Lucio
Gutierrez. Your assistance in now needed to lay claim to this funds since it was
deposited in the name of a "Foreign Partner" Fictitious. I personally
will not be able to handle such transaction now since I am still a serving
Officer in the country's army but as a confidant of the former President
Lucio Gutierrez, I am ready to help him seek for help.
I request that you provide me with your full names, contact address,Occupation,
telephone and fax numbers and once this information is received I will provide
you with the necessary and relevant documents that will put you in place as the
original owner of the money. Mr. Lucio has already instructed that 85% of this
money will be for him while the remaining 15% will be for you and I can assure
that the transaction is risk free.
Upon your response, I will introduce you to an attorney who will provide you
with guidelines and assistance too. For now I will suggest that all
correspondence should be via Email for purely security reasons and no doubt this
proposal will make you apprehensive.
Please, I employ you to observe utmost confidentiality and be rest assured that
this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because we shall
require your assistance to invest our share in your country.
Your timely response will be awaited
Regards,
Mr. Jorge Arroyo
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