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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: "Farah al-Hashemi" <farahhashemi@gmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:29:53 +0700
Subject: I will appreciate your reply
Dearest Beloved,
Thank you for the attention beeing given to go through my mail.I am
Mrs.Farah al-Hashemi, The wife of iraq military finance corps Chief, who was
incharge of the payment of the military salary during his life service time
. I am 58 years old, i am now receiving treatment in the hospital. It's
quite obvious that I won't live Longer according to my doctor as i am
sufering from my kidney transplant illness,this is because my illness has
gotten to a very bad stage.
My late husband died from the British and American attacks over my
country,and during the period of our marriage we had two male children Musa
and Idris.After the death of my husband , I inherited some money which my
late husband deposited with a Security Finance Company in Thailand for
safety.The doctor has advised me that I may not live long, so I now decided
to contact you to assist my two sons to claim this money From where it was
deposited and guide them for investment as you are a potential business man.
My family will be interested in doing business in your country, thefore i
would like to seek your assistance and help.I am interested particularly in
properties , but your advise on other areas of private sector would be
highly appreciated, i am in believe that you would be of great help in
guiding my two sons to a sucessful exploration of the investment potentials
of your country , which guarantees good capital returns and human security
.As a result of this, i can take you in confidence bassically due of the
source of the fund , hereby believing
that your assistance will be profitable to us.
The amount in question is USD$12 Million .I will appreciate your willingness
to carry this transactions the gratification remark which will be determined
as soon as i hear from you.As i have maped out 20%, for your assistance and
5% would be used for the re-embursement of any expenses that is encurred
during on the process of this transaction .
Lastly, I honestly pray that this money when transferred to your country
will be used for the said purpose of investing in the industry, because I
have come to find out that wealth acquisition without Allah is vanity upon
vanity. I await your urgent reply to enable me up-date you with more
information and how to proced. Do feel free to ask me any question if you
wish to as my husbands death has blocked every trace of this money from
us,the documentations relating to the deposit of this fund are all intact
with my first son for your
verification.I await to hearing from you soonest.
Yours Sincerely.
Mrs Farah al-Hashemi
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