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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: "MR WILLIAMS DOUGLAS" <douglas.williams@tiscali.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:08:00 +0100
Subject: ATTN: URGENT / CONFIDENTIAL IN GOOD FAITH.

FROM; MR WILLIAMS DOUGLAS
REPUBLIC OF COTE'D'IVOIRE.
EMAIL:douglas.williams@tiscali.fr
TEL/+225 07 94 27 44.


ATTN:

You may be surprised to receive this letter from me
since you do not know me personally first, I am
WILLIAMS DOUGLAS the first son of MR GEORGE DOUGLAS a
well famous famer who was recently murdered in the
land dispute in Zimbabwe.

I was furnished with viable information from the
INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTRE here in cote d'ivoire and
decided to contact you.

Before the death of my father he had taken me to Abidjan
cote d'ivoire to deposit the sum of US$20 Million
(Tweenty Million and United States Dollars) in one of the leading bank as if he foresaw the looming danger in Zimbabwe.

This amount was meant for the purchase of new machines
and chemicals for the farms and establishment of a new
farm in Swaziland. This land problem came when the
President of Zimbabwe MR ROBERT MUGABE introduced a
new Land Act which wholly affected the rich white and
black farmers.

This resulted to the killing and mob action by the
Zimbabwean war veterans and some lunatics in the
society.

In fact a lot of people have been killed because of
this land-reformed act of which my father was one of
the victims.

It is against this background that my family and I who
are currently staying in cote d'ivoire decided to
transfer my father's money to a foreign account since
the law of cote d'ivoire prohibits a refugee (asylum
seeker) to open any bank account or to be involved in
any financial transaction.

As the eldest son of my father I am saddled with the
responsibility of seeking a genuine foreign account
into which this money could be transferred to, without
the knowledge of my government who are bent on taking
everything we have got and cote d'ivoire seems to be
playing along with them.

I am faced with the dilemma of investing this amount
of money in cote d'ivoire for fear of going through the
same experience in the future since both countries have
the same political history.

More so the cote d'ivoire Foreign Exchange policy does
not allow such investment as an asylum seeker.

As a businessman I have to entrust my future and that
of my family in your hands I must let you know that
this transaction is risk free.

If you accept to assist me and my family all I want
you to do is to make arrangements and come to
Abidjan cote d'ivoire so that you can open a
non-resident account which will aid us in transferring
the money into any account you will nominate
overseas.This money I intend to use for investment.

I have two options for you, firstly you can choose to
have a certain percentage of the money for nominating
your account for this transaction, or you can go into
partnership with me for the proper profitable
investment of the money in your country.

Whichever the options you want feel free to notify me.
I have also mapped out 10% of this money for all kinds
of expenses incurred in the process of this
transation. If you do not prefer a partnership I am
willing to give you 20% of the money while the
remaining 70% will be for my investment in your
country.

Contact me with the above telephone and E-mail address
while I implore you to maintain the confidentiality required in
this transaction.

And , You must give this business the confidentialilty it demands.
Please send your phone and fax numbers on your reply to my
proposal.Yours Faithfully,

WILLIAMS DOUGLAS
{For the family }

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