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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: DON IKE <don_ike00@yahoo.ca>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:50:42 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Sincerely In Need Of Your Help
My Dear Friend,
I am Master Don Ike,I am 25years old and a Sierra Leonean, and the only Son of Late DR. Christoher Ike of the blessed memory. My late father was the chairman of Sierra Leonean National Diamond & Gold Corporation.
My father was killed along with my two kid brothers in our Freetown residence while I was away. They were assassinated by rebels led by Major Johnny Paul Koromah because my family never supported the way Major Johnny Paul Koromah and his splinter group overthrew our legitimate President, Alhaji Ahmed Tejan Kabbah and forced him to exile.
After the assassination of my father and brothers, when the African Peace Keeping Forces(ECOMOG) soldiers were in control of my village "Mende", I left my hideout in my village. When I was searching for some information in our family villa, I found the key of my father's underground strong room and discovered some documents also notes that he made a deposited of one metallic box containing Fifteen million US Dollars (US$15,000,000.00) in a private security company and he deposited it as family valuables not as money for security reasons best known to him.
Meanwhile, I made an arrangement with a fisherman that operates a fishing trawller boat who smuggled me out through West African coast water to lome TOGO and I have search for the security company and they told me that my late father family valuables is still with them. I now decieded to look for a trustworthy and reliable foreign partner who will assist me to move this money to his country or any place of his choice for investment.
I suggest offering you (15%) of the total money if you will assist me to have this transaction done.
1) You will help me provide a lucrative business where this money will be wisely invested.
(2) To help me to secure a permanent residence permit as I would love to spend the rest of my life doing business overseas.
Meanwhile, I want to leave TOGO entirely with this money for investment in your country because of the unstable political situation and mostly for the future of my life. I want you to please assist me to claim the box from their affiliate in TOGO. Because of the political problem here I instructed the Security Company to transfer the consignment to their branch office in Europe for safe keeping. So the consignment is now in LOME TOGO. Every other information needed will be given to you on request. Note: that your urgent assistance is needed to facilitate this transaction.
For confidential purpose, you should handle this transaction with utmost secrecy which it demands.
I Awaits to hear from you ASAP.
Sincerely In Need Of Your Help.
God bless you.
Master Don Ike.
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