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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: "FROM : AGNES MOMOH." <agnesmm@atlas.cz> (may be fake)
Reply-To: agnesmm@handbag.com
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:50:23 +0000
Subject: FROM : AGNES MOMOH.
FROM : AGNES MOMOH.
Freetown-Sierra Leone.
Dear Sir
Please this business proposal is strictly confidential with due
respect.
Sorry at this perceived confusion or stress you may have receiving this
letter, since we have not known or met ourselves previously. Despite
that reason, please save us from this situation as I hope that this letter
will not constitute an embarrassment to you.
I decided to contact you because of the urgency of my situation here
and with this, let me introduce myself. I am Dr. Mrs. Agnes Momoh (44
yrs.), The wife of the former head of interim government of Sierra Leone,
late Major General Joseph Momoh who died during the Sierra Leone civil disturbances.
I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment I received
from my husband younger brothers. They planned to take away all my husband
treasury and properties away from me since the unexpected death of my beloved husband.
Meanwhile I have four lovely children for my husband before his death
(a boy and three girls). My first and only son is twenty 28 years old
and by name Samuel Momoh. I wanted to escape to the United Sates States
with my children but they conspired together and stole my international
passport and other valuable travelling documents. But luckily they did not
discover where I hid my husband's documents file where important documents are kept.
So I decided to contact you confidentially.
They have even closed all my husband bank accounts just to put me and
my beloved children into suffery and starvation. Now I urgently need an
assistance of a reputable and trustworthy Foreigner like you to help me
receive and subsequently invest on my children's behalf the sum of US$
10.000.000.00 (TEN MILLION DOLLARS), which my husband kept
which my husband kept in a vault before his death.
It therefore became very necessary and urgent that somebody in your
foreign position should render a helping hand to safe-guard this fund
for me in safe haven over there until my arrival in your country.
It is my intention to compensate you with 20% of the total money for
your services while 5% will be kept aside for any miscellaneous expenses
incurred by both of us and balance kept for the good of my
Children in respect of some good investments in your country or other
country as you may advice me.
The fund cannot be transferred or moved out through the banks via
telegraphic transfer system because all eyes would be on me. This is
the reason why I decided to contact you. Please all communications
should be through this email address only for confidential purposes.
Giving you my phone number will definitely expose all the transaction as
any of them may eavesdrop to our confidential conversation.
So the fund being a huge amount of money would require your help as a
reputable businessman who can invest in any foreign country outside
Africa.
So to this end, I have devised a fool-proof method of crossing this
cash by defacing the entire fund to avoid detection, seizure or diversion.
And move this fund outside the country (Sierra Leone) as a diplomatic
luggage with the help of a Courrier diplomat service-man. He will be
ignorant of the actual content of the luggage and will help to deliver it
outside the country where you go and take careful delivery of the luggage
and arrange the necessary banking formalities after normalizing the funds.
With all the arrangements already put in place, the consignment will leave the
country to a security company where it will be kept till your arrival there to
take it along with you as mentioned above.
As soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest I
will put things into action immediately.
In the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent message
indicating your ability and willingness to handle this transaction
sincerely.
I will need your private phone and fax numbers for easy and urgent
communications.
This transaction will only take 14 days (two weeks) to finalise if you
will understand and co-operate with me.
Awaiting your urgent and positive response. Thanking you in advance for
your understanding and co-operation.
Yours Sincerely,
(Dr.) Mrs. Agnes Momoh.
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