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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: "mike kamokai" <kamokai_2004@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 03:25:42 +0100
Subject: propsal
FROM MR. MIKE KAMOKAI
Dear Sir,
I am Mr. Mike Kamokai and my sister Rose Kamokai; we are the children of late Chief Joseph Kamokai from Sierra Leone.
I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to ask assistance to transfer our cash of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000 00) now in the custody of a private Security trust firm in Ghana the money in the trunk does no know the content as money, although my father made to under stand that the boxes belongs to his foreign partner.
Source of the money: My late Father Chief Joseph Kamokai, a native of Mende District in the Northern province of Sierra Leone, he was the General Manager of Sierra Leone Mining co-operation (S.L.M.C) Freetown.
According to my father, this money was the income accrued from Mining Co-operations over draft and minor sales.
Before the peak of the civil war between the rebel’s forces of Major Paul Koroma and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from power of the civilian elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels.
My father had already made arrangement for his family that talking about my mother, my little sister and myself to be evacuated to Ghana with the CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT he made with a security firm in Ghana through the aid of U.N evacuation team.
During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looting of Public Government properties by the rebel forces, the Sierra Leone mining coop.
Was one of the targets looted and it was destroyed.
My father including other top Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.
As a result of my father’s death and with the news of my uncle’s involvement in the air crash in January it dashed our hope of survival.
The untimely deaths caused my mother’s heart failure and other related complications of which she later died in the hospital after we must have spent a lot of money on her early this year. Now my 29 years sister and my self are alone in the strange country suffering without any care or help.
Without any relation, we are now like refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in you and the boxes deposited in the Security Firm, to this effect, I humbly solicit your assistance in the following ways.
1. To assist me claim this boxes from the security Firm as our beneficiary
2. To transfer this money (USD$50M) in your name to your country
3. to make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country and you, our Adviser/Manager For your assistance I have agreed with my younger sister that 20% of the total amount will be for your effort and another 10% to cover all the expenses that may incur during the business transaction, Last, I urge you to keep this transaction strictly confidential as no one knows our where about. Please as you show your willingness, forward to us your full name, address and Tel/Fax number, to me via my private email earnestly awaiting your response.
Please may call me on this number +233 244 774480
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Thanks. May God bless you as you assist us?
MR. MIKE KAMOKAI
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