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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: "jean.a.mrtains" <jean@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jean_m20012000@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:32:27 +0000
Subject:
Bonjour s.v.p,
I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to you,i hope you will not be embarrassed receiving this mail as we have not had previous correspondences on this.I decided to contact you based on the clearance and assurance i got from source that linked me to you.
I hope you will not impede the trust and confidence I repose in you.In brief introduction, I am Miss.Astrid Jean- Martin, an Ivorian National. The only child of Dr and Mr. Keita Jean- Martin. My father was a very rich Gold and Cocoa merchant, based in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discussion a business deal.
I had earlier lost my mother in car crash in the year 2000 along San Pedro Road. Before the death of my father on September 26th, 2003 in a private hospital where he has been admitted. He, my father called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sum of $7,328,000 ( Seven Million three Hundred and Twenty Eight Thousand United States Dollars) in a Fix suspense account in a Finance House in Europe. that he uses my names as the next of kin in the fund.
He also explained to me that it was because of this money that he was poisoned by his business partners and that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I would transfer this money and used it for an investment such as (real estate management or stock market).
After my father's death, I was faced with many dangers from hostile relatives and business associates and couple with the war in my country between the Government and the rabel.I have abandoned my country came to Dakar Senegal where I took refuge at the Dr. Faye Refugee Camp in Dakar Senegal.
I succeeded in confirming the availability of the fund at the Finance Company in Europe, but my Asylum condition does not allow me to travel and couple that i do not know how to handle the money because of my age.I am appealing to you to help me and as follows:
1) To provide a bank account where this money will be
transferred.
2) To serve as the guardian of this fund .
3) To make arrangement for me in your country to
continue my education career and to procure me a residential permit in your country.
Thanking you for your understanding.
I look forward to your earliest reply
Yours truly,
Astrid Jean- Martin
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