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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: williams_willia@excite.it
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 22:49:28 +0000
Subject: GREETING FROM MRS ELLISANI JONES

GREETING FROM MRS ELLISANI JONES
REPUBLIC OF ABIDJAN COTE D' IVOIRE

Dear sir ,


It took me time and divine intervention to write you this mail, as we have
never had any correspondence before.
My name is MRS ELLISANI JONES. I'm a CONSULTANT and I'm very much interested
in a relationship with you for mutual benefits as I have access to what
is needed, but lack the experience and I'm not in a position to perfect
its use because it was been deposited to his forigen partner.There is an
urgent need for my contacting you as I recently have been granted an opportunity
to have access to US$8,500,000.00(Eight million five hundred thousand United
States Dollars Only) Which I wanted to invest here in LIBERIA before the
war borke out.

Access to this fund is made available by late husband, who happens to be
the former military Chairman to Former Liberia Minister of Rural Development
in MONROVIA , MR ERNEST C.B. JONES, JR I'm currently been hospitalise
here in Abijan , and I no access to any funds. I'm well known in the community
and aside being a major real estate agent she is a magnet inenvironmental
management and was a liencened oil merchant before now.


Unfortunately I have been living and struggling on how to trust you and
open disscusions with you before now. I now insisted that the fund should
be invested. Unfortunately I'm definitely not in a position to run things,
which is why I seek your assistance in taking control of managing the fund.
I have resolved with her on an agreement that will be drawn up by you on
a yearly charge that will be paid to you for taking control and managing
the fund while half of the proceed will be given for the development of
treatment of cancer patients.


The rest will remain with you for the up keep of my only daughter. I wish
you could be of assistance to this course and I'd like to add that sometimes.I
receive unsolicited mails, so I hope my mail doesn't come as an embarrassment
to you, but if it does please kindly accept my apologies.


Awaiting your response,
Sincerely,

MRS ELLISANI JONES

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