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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: eastlyn002@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:37:59 +0100
Subject: urgent respond"CONFIDENTIAL"
Dear Sir/Madam
It is with great hope despite my unforeseen
predicament that I am writing this great letter to you from East London in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
I am Eastlyn Bobo-Taylor the niece of former
President of Liberia,who at present seek asylum in a neighboring West African country. We are originally from the Trinidad and Tobago before the father of Charles Taylor; President of Liberia migrated to Liberia enroute Spain.
I am a divorce with one son named Andrew Bobo Jnr. I have been living a lowly life with my son until President Charles Taylor came visiting Trinidad and Tobago. He took me and my son along with him to Liberia where he granted us Liberian citizenship.
Since then I have been assisting him in his Diamond deals with buyers who came visiting Liberia for bulk purchases. Charles Taylor uses the revenue from the illegal trade in diamonds to finance his fight against the rebels within Liberia and border country, Sierra Leone. As a result of high demand of Liberian Diamond,many African leaders became his friends and he had
many Diamond Deposits in almost all of the Apex Banks in Africa in exchange for Hard Currency for future investment purposes.
Fortunately for me, he had one of the Diamond Deposit in South Africa in my name. And that is why I and my son quickly sought for asylum here in South Africa to enable me monitor the release of the Diamond Deposit for Hard Currency in United States Dollars. Hence, I am contacting you to assist me as the recipient of this fund into your bank account in your country for
oversea investments.
I chose to contact you because of the following
reasons: One, as an asylum seeker, I am limited by South African law to carry out this transaction. Two,when the Diamond were deposited it was agreed that it will be paid out in United States Dollars for oversea investment outside South Africa.
It is my desire to establish a Humanitarian Foundation dedicated toward development of African Child. So, we will need to invest this fund into a viable investment that will be recommended by you. This will afford us the needed finance to run the activities of the
intended foundation.
Should, you would be willing to assist me do not hesitate to contact me for further deliberation on how best to execute this transaction. The amount involved is very huge and I cannot toil with this opportunity to secure the future of my only child and generation.
Please mail back through my alternate email address.(eastlyn400@yahoo.com)
Thank you and God bless you.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs Eastlyn Bobo-Taylor
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