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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: jtaylor01@handbag.com
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 03:52:24 -0800
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL
EMAIL: jeweltaylor001@yahoo.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
months 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 Holland 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 Holland for protective custody under a
different name.
Now, the government of Holland 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 Holland
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 my email :jewelhtaylor001@yahoo.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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