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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. Patrick Weah Addo" <p_weahaddofamily@sify.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: patrick_addo@sify.com
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 05:00:54 -0700
Subject: From : Weah's Family ( Liberia )
Country: Liberia,
West Africa.
Email alternative :
patrick_addo@sify.com
Dear ,
First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval considering the facts we have not known each other before; I wish to use this opportunity to Introduce myself to you.
I am (Mr. Patrick Weah Addo ) from Liberia, West Africa. I write to inform you my desire to invest, and to buy a living house in your country.I am the first son of Mr. Weah Addo; my father was a diamond/gold merchantin my country.My father had a bullet shot by the rebels on his way traveling out of my country with two of my younger sister's due to present crisis that is occurring in our country (Liberia).
My sister's died on the spot while UN peacemaker, keeping force rescued my father, and he was taken to hospital for medical treatment, which he later died. Before he died he revealed to me and my mother about the boxes containing: 85 kilo of raw gold and $12.5 million,(twelve million and five
hundred thousand us dollars). Which he deposited with a security company in Ghana for safekeeping. My father did not disclose any of the content of the boxes to the security company.To avoid the of ficials from raising eyebrows to the funds.Presently my mother and myself are here in Ghana to notify the security company for the claims, and we are staying in the refugee camp.
Therefore I want you to lecture me on how best we can invest this money,because my father told me that it is dangerous to invest this money in Africa to avoid suspicions, and due to market instability coupled with economic and political instability facing African count rise,that is why
we want to invest in Abroad.
For your mutual assistance, my mother and myself have agreed to offer you 25% of the total amount of the money. We have all the vital documents covering the deposit and the ownership,which I can send to you through fax on request. Note: I have never disclosed this to any person apart from you, so you have to keep this transaction as a top secret to yourself alone. Which I will want you to forward across to me your direct Tel/Fax number for more information's
about this transaction.
I am waiting for your urgent and positive feedback.
Please reply to my secured alternative: patrick_addo@sify.com
Best regards,
Mr. Patrick Weah Addo
(For the entire family)
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