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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: angelathomas@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:41:07 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?I=20=20NEED=20=20YOUR=20=20URGENT=20=20ASSISTANCE=20=20PLS=2E?=
Dearest One,
REQUEST TO BE MY GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP ME TO COME OVER TO YOUR
COUNTRY:
Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? After going through your profile,permit
me to inform you of my desire to ask you to be a guardian or foster parent
to me and then help me out in what I'm about to tell you.I'm Angela Thomas(19)
i,m the only daughter of Late Mr.& Mrs.Joseph Thomas. My father
was a very wealthy Oil Marchant here in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. He
was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings
on a business trip. My mother died when i was a baby.
Before the death of my father on Sept. 2004 in a private hospital here in
Abuja, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the
sum of Five million United State Dollars USD ($5m) deposited in a suspense
account in one of the big banks in Lagos. He told me that he used my name
as the next of Kin in depositing the money.He then strongly advised me not
to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer nor
any of his friends here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country
of my choice (outside my country,Nigeria) that willl assist me in the wise
investment of the money.I have since left the money in the bank with the
view of my making use of it for investment purposes after my education
carrier here.I now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose.
Because of this i am honorably seeking your assistance in the following
ways:
(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me transfer the money into
your bank account. (2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country
to further my education and then settle there parmanently. If you accept
to stand as my guardian or foster parent to me, i need not to discuss on
any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and
then assist me in investing it. But if you still want a percentage, i i
am willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your
assistance.Please tell me if you feel the percentage I offered is not ok
by you.
As soon as I receive your concrete assurance to assist me with my proposal
and also your full contact address/phone number, I will then give the
bank your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money into
your account as I want to come over to stay with you parmanently. The bank
will then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You shall
then be giving me information on when the transfer will be over. I
shall also send my picture to you and shall also need yours too.
No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please I beg you to keep
this highly secret for my safety, as I believe that those that killed my
Daddy are still after me. Please reply me through my email box.
Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Angela Thomas.
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