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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: "anthony franklin" <anto_fk2004@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: abdulazeez1@rediffmail.com
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 14:40:23 +0000
Subject: PLEASE ASSIST
Dear Friend
I am most grateful for your mail, and I seize this
opportunity to thank you for coming to my rescue
and to also let you know that this transaction is a
straight forward and legal transaction. I am somebody
with a conscience. If this transaction was in any way
illegal, I would tell you straight away so that you know
what is involved and decide for yourself. But it is not
like that at all, and you will later see and understand that.
I hope you were not too embarrassed by my first email
to you since you do not know me. I had no option since
my immediate and extended family in and outside Dubai
refused to distribute my funds because they want to keep it to
themselves. I didn’t know how to move the funds out
and dispatched it to charity organizations, so I
resulted to putting fate to test and making a random
contact. I got your email address from the web email
directory and decided to introduce I plight and this
transaction. I am communicating with only you at this
moment with regards to this transaction. And I would
not have any cause to do otherwise, except you state
your intention to withdraw your assistance.
Just like I stated in my first mail to you, this fund
is presently in a private security and holding firm
in The Netherlands. I cannot claim these funds myself
as a result of,
(1) I am under going medical treatment. It has defiled
all forms of medicine, and right now I have only about
a few months to live, according to medical experts
(2) I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul
and so, I have decided to give alms to charity organizations
and other groups of people that need alms. as I want this to be
one of the last good deeds I do on earth
It is for this reasons I am seeking for your
assistance to stand as the beneficiary to the fund and
retrieve it on my behalf and dispatched it to charity
organizations
All the necessary documents required to get the Funds
out of the security firm are in the possession of my attorney
and he will be sending them to you after we must have come
to a conclusion and reached an agreement. Not before.
I need you to give me your words that you will be very
honest and straight forward with me when the money gets to you,
So long as you can execute this transaction successfully and
help me dispatched it to charity organizations.
Thus, I would need you to get back to me on the
following issues,
(1) That you are in a position to be trusted as a God
fearing person with such a large amount of fund and
dispatched it to charity organization.
(2) That you ready to sign a letter of guarantee with
my lawyer on behalf of me due to my health problem,
clearly stating the terms of this transaction, including your
percentages and dispatching the remaining funds to
charity organizations, as my lawyer will be a living
witness that you fulfill your promise of dispatching my funds
to charity organizations so that I am assured that the money
would be safe in your hands even when am at the gate.
(3) That you are willing to contact the security
company to discuss the terms of releasing the funds
(4) That you fully understand this transaction up to
this stage and you are ready to proceed under these terms.
As soon as I receive your reply that you are ready to
proceed under these terms, then I will furnish you with
all details including the company and my lawyer’s details
for the secure of the release of my fund and disposure
to the charities. But if you have any questions up to this
stage, please ask and I will be more than happy to respond
to them.And I will also send you all the necessary documentations
to conclude this transaction and the security company details
as mylife is too short.
Thanks for your mail, your mail has relieved me and I
pray to almighty GOD with his infinite mercy to reward you.
I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this
world I would live my life a different way from how I
have lived it now. I want you to pray for me so that
God would forgive me and be merciful to me and accept my
soul
May God bless you,
ABDUL Azzez
ALTERNATIVE:abdulazeez@rediffmail.com
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