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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: JEWEL TAYLOR <jeweltaylor06@tatanova.com>
Date:
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE
TELEPHONE: 234-80-23648455.
EMAIL: jeweltaylor08@hotmail.com
From: Mrs. Jewel H. Taylor (Former First Lady, Republic of Liberia, West
Africa.
Attn: President/CEO
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
President of Liberia days ago, but matters were not helped when UN Special War Crimes
Court for Sierra Leone indicted my husband for war crimes in June this
year, demanding his prosecution. Currently i and my husband have been
granted asylum in Nigeria, but I relocated my two sons (Williams &
Charles Jnr) immediately in July 2003 to Sao Tome & Principe (a small oil rich
island off the coast of West Africa). They are currently in hiding
there under new identities, awaiting the outcome 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 (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 Spain with the diamonds (on my instructions) and sold them,
getting a total of US$28,000,000.00 (Twenty Eight million US Dollars
only). This money he moved into a safe house in Spain for protective
custody under a different name.
Now, the government of Spain 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 Spain 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 corresponding 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
effect this.
I am also 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 and
join you under new identities. My first son Williams is 27years old (an
Economist), and Charles Jnr is only 21 years old. My only daughter Helen died in
October 1999 from complications of pneumonia.
Please note that my husband is not even aware that I sold the diamonds,
nor does he know the whereabout of the funds. Once I am sure the funds are
safely out of Holland, I will divorce him and leave with my sons to start a
new life.
If you cannot help us, simply destroy and forget I ever contacted you.
You can contact me via telephone 234-80-23648455 ands or email,
jeweltaylor08@hotmail.com enclosing your contacts.
May God guide you in whatever you decide, and thank you for taking out
time to read this reqquest.
Fondest regards.
Mrs. Jewel Howard Taylor
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