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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: "monica obaego" <monicaobaego4455@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: monica_obaego@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 06:09:27 -0800
Subject: urgent reply
FROM:Mrs.Monica Obaego
Dear Friend,
I greet you in the name of our lord. My
name is Mrs.Monica Obaego. I am a widow and a mother of Two all girls. I
know you will see my letter to you as an embarrassment considering the fact
that wedo not know ourselves. I plead with you to be patient
withme I feel very pleased to contact you for some
assistance and business relationship.
I live in Nigeria with my children. Mylate husband was a loving, caring and
hard working businessman who died unfortunately In a ghastly auto crash.
Beforethe sudden death of my beloved husband, and father ofmy daughters,
my late husband intended to establisha business in the united states of America
with thesum of$15 million united states dollars, but unfortunately he died
before this proposed venture. Following his death, his family members insisted
that I am not entitled to his property (Assets and money) since Iam a woman
and my offspring's all girls as I do not ha ve a male child for my husband.
Well, according to some barbaric traditional laws here in Nigeria (Africa)
which doesn't permit a woman to inherit a man's property, as they are expected
by tradition to take over the management of his business and other properties
including myself who automatically becomes a wife to one of his immediate
brothers.
Unfortunately to this wicked family members, the $15 million united states
dollars which my late husband intended to use in establishing a business
in the United States was deposited in a bank account unknown to his family.
I and the lawyer is the only one aware of this money,so I have discussed
this matter with a staff of the bank that i want this money personally so
that I willbe able to take care of my children's educational needs since
my husband's family members vehemently opposed the furtherance of their education.
According tothe staff of the bank, the best way to secure thismoney is to
transfer this money to a bank account out side Nigeria For safe-keeping,
later it will be usedfor business establishment subject to the Adviseof whosoever
finally assists us.
At this juncture, I therefore ask for your sincere assistance in providing
us withyour bank details and the enablement to facilitate there mittance
of this fund into your nominated account. As soonas I get your positive response,
I shall provide you with allthe necessary detail for this transfer. However,
I have decided to to give you 30% of the total money as a rewardfor your
sincere assistance and the remaining 70% ofthe money will be for my investment
as I will want to keep aglow my late husbands dream of investing inreal estate.
if you are ready to help me, kindly send , your personal details including
your contact information for easy communication through my email
Thanking you for your anticipated response.
Mrs.Monica Obaego.
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