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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: mellanyjemenez@tiscali.ch
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:01:27 +0100
Subject: I await your response
Good to you,
I am Ms. Mellany Jemenez, a citizen of the Philippines and a staff of the
United Nations (UN); I know that this mail will be of great surprise to
you. I got your e-mail address from the Internet as I was soliciting for
a partner who will work with us. Please, do not see this mail as one of
those stories from some Africans of which I have received such too.
In recent times, there have been conflicts all over the world especially
in the Middle East, which has been of top concern to the UN. I happen to
be one of the officials assigned to Iraq. I also played a great part in
seeing that Afghanistan is been rebuilt and those casualties, especially
children are well taken care of. During this period, my partners and I were
able to secure some amount of money amounting to Thirty Million Five Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars ($30.5M), which was moved to Europe. Moving
this fund was easy because of the connections my partners had. Now that
things have settled, we want to move the money out of the deposit company
where it is deposited in Madrid - Spain.
We are contacting you to work with us because we are civil servants and
cannot do it alone. The presence and participation of a neutral person is
needed to achieve this transaction hence my contacting you. Note that all
the relevant documents will be in place for this transaction to be hitch
free. For your participation, you will be getting 20% of the total sum.
This transaction will take not more than fourteen (14) banking/working days
to be finalized from the day of commencement. Kindly treat it with much
needed secrecy, confidentiality and despatch, as we will not want a
blackmail
or media scandal. You are the only person I contacted for this transaction
and will hope to get your reply ASAP for further correspondence via my
Private
email ID.
For further information, kindly get in touch with my attorney on tel no.:
0034 ? 649003753 in Madrid Spain. His name is Mr. Lenox Kelvin. He is in
Spain just to ensure that the whole matter is commenced and finalised on
record time. I hold you in enormous trust, so please do not let me down.
As we commence communication, we shall be talking on how you are going to
assist us in investing part of our share in your country or maybe as a joint
venture in your business. I advise you to feel free in responding as non
of your valuable time time or hard earned resources will be wasted in this
venture.
I believe this is a wonderful wind fall that has come our way and we have
got to actualise it together. Thanks for your immediate response to this
letter.
Best regards and God bless.
Yours faithfully,
Mellany Jemenez.
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