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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: "UBI TELGA" <telga@reliefgroup.net>
Reply-To: andubaka@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:54:53 +0000
Subject: Business consult
Hello,
I am sorry for contacting you without any previous correspondence. I am Mr
A.U. Telga from Sudan. I wish to request your hand of cooperation in a
business deal on behalf of Mrs. Julian Makoko whose husband was, brutally
murdered in Dafur crises by southern rebels. Her husband (Chief Tigani
Makoko) was the head of Commission on oil field maintenance in South Dafur
state before he was killed. Few months after his death, his wife consulted
me in regards to a business deal initiated by her husband. She further
explained to me that her husband documented a (3) year’s maintenance project
in one of the oil concessions, which yielded the sum of US$12.6 million
dollars. Tigani Makoko officially recorded the project in the foreign
contracts file with the intension to connive with a foreigner who will
receive the payment in a foreign bank account on his behalf upon maturity.
This amount is now floating in the State government’s account waiting to be
claimed by a foreign beneficiary as stated in the project file.
I therefore contact you to ask for your cooperation in receiving the money
in your personal or company bank account on behalf of (Mrs. Julian Makoko)
since her husband is no more alive to execute the transaction. There is no
risk involved in the transfer because the project was legally documented by
(Late Tigani Makoko) during his tenure as the chairman of the commission.
Also I shall obtain some other legal documents on your behalf that will
justify the payment to your bank account. Based on this, there is no risk
for you in receiving the money in your bank account. More detailed
information will be given to you regarding the transaction procedure and you
will receive a share of 20% from the total amount for your kind assistance
and honesty. Please treat this letter with utmost confidentiality. I wait
for your response. Best Regards. Ubi Telga.
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