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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: jtaylor <jtaylor@tatanova.com>
Reply-To: jtaylor <jtaylor1@email.com>
Date:
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED
From: Mrs. Jewel H. Taylor.
(Former First Lady,
Republic of Liberia, West Africa)
I am Mrs. Jewel Howard Taylor, an Americo-Liberian by birth and
wife of embattled President of war torn Liberia, Mr. Charles
Taylor. I am an Economist by profession.
My husband just stepped down as the President of Liberia days
ago, but matter were not helped when the UN special war crimes
court of Sierra Leone indicted my husband for war crimes in June
this year, demanding his prosecution. Currently, I and my husband
have been granted assylum in Nigeria, but I relocated my two sons
(Williams and Charles Jnr.) immediately in July 2003 to Sao Tome
and Principe ( a small oil rich island off the coasts of West
Africa).
They are currently in hiding there under new identities, awaiting
the out come of events in my country, and what will become of me
and my husband in asylum. The reason is this During the political
crisis some years ago in Sierra Leone ( a West African Country
Rich in Diamonds), my husband was actively involved. Early this
year, he entrusted some large quantities of diamonds to me. He
told me if anything happened to him, I should use it to take care
of myself. Fearing its detection due to the volume,My son
(Williams) traveled to South Africa with the diamonds (on my
instructions) and sold them, netting a total of US$28,000,000.00
(Twenty Eighteen Million US Dollars only). This money he moved
into a South African safe house for protective custody under a
different name.
Now, the south African Government has refused issuing neither him
nor my family any visa to travel to their country again because
of the current political situation.
This is why I need you to please either travel to South Africa to
claim this money and subsequently deposit same in a reputable
bank there for onward transfer to your account, or to instruct
the safe house to move the funds out of there to any of their
correspondence banks or offices in London or Europe, for onward
transfer to your account. Once you are able to show your
sincerity, I will send the necessary correspondence and
documentation related to the transaction to you to affect this. I
am willing to forfeit 30% of the funds to you believing you will
hold 70% on trust for me and my two sons, until we are able to
leave here to join you under new identities.
My first son Williams is 27years old (an Economist) and Charles
Jhr. is only 21 Years old. My Daughter Helen died in October 1999
from complications of Pneumonia. Please note that my husband is
not even
aware that I sole the diamonds, nor does he know the whereabouts
of the funds. Once I am sure the funds are safely out of Africa,
I will divorce him and leave with my two sons to start a new life.
If you cannot help us, simply destroy this and forget I ever
contacted you. You can reply me through my e-mail address[
May God guide you in whatever you decide and thank you for taking
out
time to read this request,
Don't let this transaction down get back to me immediatly.
Fondest Regards,
Mrs. Jewel H. Taylor.
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