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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: mrschiokobi@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:35:17 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?SAVE=20MY=20LIFE=20PLS=2C?=
SAVE MY LIFE PLS,
Dear Sir/Madam,
I greet you in the name of our lord Jesus Christ. My name is Mrs. Chi Okobi.
I am a widow and a mother of three all girls. I know you will see my letter
to you as an embarrassment considering the fact that we do not know ourselves.
I plead with you to be patient with me I feel very pleased to contact you
for some assistance and business relationship. I live in Nigeria with my
children. My late husband was a loving, caring and hardworking businessman
who died unfortunately In a ghastly auto crash.
Before the sudden death of my beloved husband, and father of my daughters,
my late husband intended to establish a business in the united states of
America with the sum of $9.5 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
I am a woman and my offspring's all girls as I do not have 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 $9.5million 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 will be able to take care of my children's educational needs
since my husband's family members vehemently opposed the furtherance of
their education. According to the staff of the bank, the best way to secure
this money is to transfer this money to a bank account outside Nigeria
For safe-keeping, later it will be used for business establishment subject
to the Advise of whosoever finally assists us. At this juncture, I therefore
ask for your sincere assistance in providing us with your bank details
and the enablement to facilitate the remittance of this fund into your
nominated account. As soon as I get your positive response, I shall provide
you with all the necessary detail for this transfer. However, I have decided
to give you 20% of the total money as a reward for your sincere assistance
and the remaining 80% of the money will be for my investment as I will want
to keep aglow my late husbands dream of investing in real estate. To be
able to help me, kindly send through my email, your personal details including
your contact information for easy communication. Thanking you for your
anticipated response.
Mrs.Chi Okobi
N.B: please all further correspodence should be directed to this email:mrschiokobi@excite.com
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