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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: "Cynthia Bobmanuel" <cybob@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: cybob@zwallet.co
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:57:11 +0100
Subject: CO-OPERATION
Dearest One,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I am Miss Cynthia T. Bobmanuel,
the daughter of Alhaji Usman Bobmanuel. My father was a very wealth gold and cocoa merchant based in Accra
the economic capital of Ghana before his business associate on one of their outing to discuss a business deal
poisoned him to death. When my father died on 24th November 2000, before the death of my father, in a private
hospital here in Accra. He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of
USD$15.5 million (fifteen million five hundred united state dollars) left in a security company here in Accra.
That he used my name as the next of kin during the time of depositing of the fund and he took the
picture of the cash before depositing it of which he showed me the picture and told me where the
depositing documents were.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business
associate and that i should seek for a foreign partner in country of my choice where i will transfer
this money and used it for investment purposed (such as real estate management) and other
business of my choice as i am the only child of my late father. I am honorably seeking your
assistance in the following areas to provide a bank account where this money would be transferred.
To serve as the guardian of this fund. to make arrangement for me to come over to your country and
to secure a residential permit for me in your country. The advise my father gave me was that i should
not let any of his friends or relations to assist me in respect of this transfer as they will betrayed me at last.
Moreover sir, i am willing to offer 30% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/ input after the
successful transfer of this fund to your nominated account in oversea.
Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me, as I believe that the transfer process
to your account will be affected as soon as I heard from you.
you can contact me on my mail box cy_bob65@rediffmail.com
Yours faithfully
Miss Cynthia Bobmanuel
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