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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: marykobe06@yahoo.com.au
Reply-To: marykobe-011@bonbon.net
Date: 17 Jul 2006 00:12:33 -0500
Subject: Re: consider
ATTN: Dearly Beloved,
This communication to you is strictly
confidential, with due respect. Sorry at this
perceived confusion or stress you may have receiving
this letter from me, Since we have not known ourselves
or met previously. Despite that, I am constrained to
write you this letter because of the urgency of it.By
way of self introduction, I am Mrs. Mercy Mitileshi, the wife
of late Brigadier - Gen.Maxwell Kobe former ECOMOG
ARMY COMMANDER [West African peacekeeping force in
Sierra Leone] who died in the Sierra Leone civil
disturbance [War]. My three daughters and I are
trapped in obnoxious custom and traditional norms.
We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in
the hands of my late husband's family, simply because
I did not bear a male child [heir apparent] for my
late husband. By tradition, all that my late husband
had! , [wealth] belongs to his brothers/family. And
myself is to be remarried by his immediate younger
brother which I vehemently refused. They have taken
all that I suffered with my husband to acquire
including treasures, houses and his bank particular
seized by them. I wanted to escape to the United State
of America [USA} with my children on exile, but again
they conspired and stole my international passport and
other traveling document to further frustrate me.
In spite of all i have succeded in fleeing to the U.K where
i have sought for political asylum.
Thank God, 2 weeks ago, I received Key Text Code
[KTC} from a Security & Finance Company abroad, that
my late husband maintains a saftey deposit box of high
value with this company and i am the next of kin sotherefore
i should make necessary arrangements to come for the claim
of the box.
Apparently due to my present situation i am not able to
secure the safety box on my own this is because i am very
limited in my capacity to do so.
It has therefore, become very necessary and
urgent to contact someone, a foreigner like you to
help me receive/secure the consignment
while i make arrangements for my kids to come over to the U.K
to meet with me and from there we shall all proceed to meet
with you in your country.
The consignment was kept on an "OPEN BENEFICIARY MANDATE"
with the Security Company to avoid detection, seizure
or diversion. I have had several telephone discussions
with the Assistant Director of the security company,
who has expressed willingness to help me on meeting the
company's demands. This is why I have
contacted you to help save my children and I,
receive/secure the safety box on our behalf. But, you
would need to give me sufficient assurance that if you help me,
you would not divert its contents which i will reveal to you
as this is an information known only to me and no one else.
My children and I have resolved
to give you a certain percentage for your honest assistance
to us and i shall open up to you as i have to be careful
for this is the only way i and my children stand to live
better lives.
This is all my children and I have got to live on.
Please! , I have reposed my confidence in you and hope
you will not disappoint me. I look forward to your
urgent response, including your private phone / mobile
No and also your fax no for easier communication.
NB: The secret codes (e.g Pin No., Secret Access Code)
for the box are safely kept with me which I will give
you as soon as you express desire to help me.
Stay blessed.
MRS. MARY KOBE.
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