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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: "RICHARD DAVID" <UNofic@katamail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: UNoffice@katamail.com
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:14:47 +0200
Subject: FROM REVD.FR RICHARD DAVID
OFFICE OF REVD.FR RICHARD DAVID
DIRECTOR SPECIAL DUTIES, UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICE
DAKAR, SENEGAL.
TEL: +221 4183317
Email:revricharddavid@katamail.com
Dear Friend.
I am Revd. Fr. Richard David, a senior staff with the World Bank fact
finding &
special duties office.
I am writing you this letter based on the fact that cool penny
is better than millions of dollars means it's better for one to live and die
poor
honest man than a rich dishonest one.
I and the Chief security officer (CSO) of this organisation have arranged with
an
officer in the computer section the person of Engineer Peter Cliff to bring
out part
of your total pending payment with reference number (LM-05-371) amounting to
US$10
million. Why we did this is because according to information gathered from the
bank’s
security computer, you have been waiting for a long time to receive this
payment
without success.
As I found out that you have almost met all the statutory
requirements in respect of your pending payment. The problems you are having
is that
of interest groups.
A lot of people are interested in your payment and those people
are merely doing paper works with you and that explains why you receive
different
kinds of untrue fax and phone messages from different people everyday. Also we
found
out that some of the officials of the parastatals have been extorting a lot of
money
from you with the pretext of helping you receive your money. I can assure you
this
will keep happening if you do not do away with those officers. For security
reasons
you do not have to tell anybody that your have your payment on the way until
the
payment gets to you.
The said payment is been arranged in a security-proof box weighing 75kg. In
order to
get this box shipped to you I and the (CSO) Yesterday went to this four
courier
companies Dhl, Ems, FedEx and Ups to make arrangements on how to get the box
shipped
to you by courier, but to no avail the above courier companies all made us to
understand that they will have to open the box for inspection by the customs
before
shipment.
This is something we want to avoid because this box is been padded with
synthetic nylon and to open it you will have to cut the pad before you will
meet the
button that you will press to open the dial code-lock. There is no way you can
open
the box and be able to close it again because it was padded with machine. We
told the
courier services that the box contained film materials and when open will
spoil the
materials. we did not declare money because courier does not carry money.
Today a friend of mine who is a diplomat disclosed to me that there is a
security
courier service company that is specialised in sending diplomatic materials
and
information from one country to another, which also has diplomatic immunity
and
consignment such as this cannot be checked by any customs anywhere in the
world. I
have therefore met the official of the security courier service and concluded
shipping
arrangement with them, which they will commence as soon as I have your go
ahead order.
The diplomat who will be bring in this consignment to you is an expert and has
been in
this line of work for many years now so we have Notting to worry about. After
all
arrangements we have concluded that you must donate Five Hundred Thousand
United
States dollars (US$500,000.00) to any charity organisation I designate as soon
as you
receive your money. To this effect, you will send to us a promissory note for
the
donation along with your address where you will like the box to be delivered
to by the
courier. Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if
found
out that we are using this way to help you.
You are advised not to inform anyone about this until you received your money.
Am helping you on this because something in me is tells me that you are an
honest person.
When you conclude this and you send our promise, we will help to ship the
final part of your money to you.
May God be with you as i wait for your response Feel free to call me if you
will like us to discuses more on this TEL: +221 4183317.
Yours Faithfully
Revd. Fr. Richard David
Director, Special Duties. UNO/WBF
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