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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: rbeedee@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 03:41:41 -1200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?REPLY=20SOONEST?=
FROM THE DESK OF: Barrister Idris Beedee
ATTN:
I know you will definitely take this as a deceptive email, because of the
swindle news we hear everyday, I am a private attorney and I have a client
who is interested in investing some good money in your country. My client
is a very important and prominent person who has mandated me to contact
you for a very important business transaction my client is by name Mrs.
Mariam Abubakar and she married to Dr. Frank Abubakar who worked with Chevron/Texaco
in Iraq for twenty years before he died in the year 2003. they were married
for twenty-seven years without a child, He died during one of the riots
in the Iraq. He was held hostage and slain to death by protesting youths
of the region.
My client husband he deposited the sum of 8.6 million dollars (Eight Million
six hundred thousand U.S.Dollars) with a bank and the management of the
bank have just wrote my client as the beneficiary to come forward to receive
the money or rather issue a letter of authorisation to somebody to receive
it on my behalf if she can not come over.
Presently my client she his undergoing treatment for cancer of the lungs
and her doctors have told my client that she only a few months to live.
It is my client last wish to see that this money is invested and at the
end of every year distributed among charity organisation. my client want
a person that is God fearing that will use this money to fund churches,
orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the
house of God is maintained. Please, do not hesitate to indicate your view
of this request by contacting me immediately you receive this mail so that
the necessary arrangements can be made for the money to leave immediately
Due to the present situation of my client, I would be happy if this request.
I would also like to note that there is no risk involved.
Awaiting your urgent response
Barrister Idris Beedee
BEEDEE CHAMBER (GROUP)
LEGAL PRACTITIONERS, CONSULTANTS
ADVOCATE AND CHARTERED SOLICITORS
Email: rbeedee33@yahoo.co.in
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