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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: sombafamily@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:37:43 +0000
Subject: DID YOU RECEIVE MY MAIL? FROM MISS VIVIAN SOMBA.
FROM / MISS VIVIAN SOMBA.
PLOT/45/25,
KOUMASSI,
ABIDJAN,
COTE D' IVOIRE.
Compliment of the day to you and your family,
REQUEST TO BE MY GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP ME THUS:
I got your contact address through your country web directory on my desperate
search for a reliable person/company for partnership investments overseas,after
going through your profile,
I am miss VIVIAN SOMBA, 22 years old, the only child of late Mr.and Mrs
EDMOND SOMBA. There is an imformation I would like you to keep very confidential,
There is this sum amount of money my Late father a gold and diamond Merchant
late Mr. EDMOND SOMBA, deposited in a bank here in Abidjan,for safe keeping.
Before his death he called me on his sick bed and gave me every informations
of this fund in a bank and also told me where the documents regarding to
the deposit of the fund that was issued to him by the bank officials where
kept in our home and he gave me an instruction to look for a foreign partner
that will help me in investing the fund wisely abroad and not to invest
in Africa after my education.
I will not be able to give you the full details that led to his untimely
death. The result of his test says he was poisoned and he my father said
he know the people that are behind his death because of jealousy of his
wealth.
I lost my mother when I was a baby and I grew up with my father all alone
and since the death of my father late last year I have been asking myself
why do I have to pass this life sorrow and feeling of pains, since my father
died I have not recovered from the shock and I not only lost my father,
I also lost all the properties belonging to my father by his greedy brothers,
He also made me to understand that his brothers were responsible for his
death to prove it all, six month after my fathers's death his brothers
sold all his properties including our family house and now seeking to kill
me too.
His houses, cocoa plantation etc but the only thing that keeps me going
is this fund which is going to help me start up a new life, this why I am
seeking for your kind assistance. I have , never known a moment of happiness
in the course of my sojourn into this country.
I have ask God if he created me to shed tears and reflect upon disappointment
all my life. now, as I try to bring back into my mind the backlog of the
events that from the nucleus of the story I am telling you, I blame nobody
but I believe in one thing that God will one day put a smile on my face
and I will find joy and be happy in future.
I know every one is an achitect of his own fortune, I must tell you I decided
to contact you for help and I will not be able to draw attention to my plight
and elicit some sympathy, could it be for the fact that I am presently going
through the most painfull aspect of my life in this country, I am in a confused
situation.
I know from the moment that my father died my world has become as useless
as a burning thatch house, that my race against time had begun. please I
need your help,I will never succeed in trying to paint the picture of the
agony I am going through here, if you have lost someone who is so dear to
you in an unexpected circumstances you will probably understand what I am
going through or what I am experiencing now.
The amount involved is the sum of US$11.5million dollars in a bank here
in Abidjan deposited for safe keeping. I want you to assit me to get this
fund transferred to your country,After this i will join you to stay with
you and your family for the rest of my life.
Because of the present political problem in the nothern part of this country,I
don't want to loose the only thing this fund in question that is my only
hope of living I have agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for your
kind gesture and assitance.
I want you to assist me in negotiating for a good and profitable business
where the balance of the fund after giving you your 20% will be invested
into in your country for my future . If it pleased you to assist me,please
do maintain the very confidentiality of this transaction.
Please e-mail me immediately you receive this messege for more clearification
on how you will assist me to make sure that this fund is well transfered
to your account in your country. Because of the threat from the brothers
of my late father I am now staying in a hideout where they will not find
me.since the death of my late father, and the civil war going on in the
northern part of this country I don't want to go back there.
Please understand that I am a God fearing young girl.
Thanks and God bless you.
MISS VIVIAN SOMBA.
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