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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: susanshabangu24@tiscali.ch
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:02:43 +0100
Subject: From desk of: Mrs. Susan Shabangu
Dear Sir,
Greetings of the day. No matter how you feel about the contents of this
letter, please handle it in the most confidential manner. My name is SUSAN
SHABANGU. I was married earlier in my life but later divorced without any
child, and later re-married. Life has been good until the 26th of December
last year, when my new husband that was on holidays with his children were
swept away by the Tsunami that struck South Eastern Asia Countries.
He and his two lovely daughters were later found stone dead the next day.
Since I received the ugly news, I have been hit with stroke, which has kept
me permanently in the hospital.
However, the information I want to share with you is that my late husband
(who was involved in gold and diamond business) had safely stashed away
a sum of USD$ 15,000,000.00 (Fifteen million US dollars) with a securities
company in Europe. Since his death, I have managed to go through some of
his files he kept with me in confidence and made the discovery.
I would want to seek your assistance in recovering this huge sum from the
securities company in Europe. In this my present situation, there?s not
much that I can do than to search for any sincere person that can retrieve
this funds on percentage basis. If you accept to work with me in this, you
will be rewarded handsomely with about 20% of the total sum.
Because I would not know if I will ever survive this sickness, I would also
want you to honestly discuss with my Assistant, Lennox Kelvin, how best
to invest the rest 80% in your country. Kelvin will also introduce you to
our contact person in the securities company for finalization. You can always
keep me informed via this personal email address, susan_shabangu24@yahoo.com
that if my health can permit me, I might check and see what?s going on.
Whatever will be your reaction to this information, please keep everything
about it as secret as you can but if you have taken your time to go through
my letter, you will know that I can?t afford to engage in senseless propositions.
May God Almighty continue to bless you in good health.
Best regards.
Susan Shabangu.
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