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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: "odibo kesiena" <odibokess@i12.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ame4real@excite.com
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:04:16 +0100
Subject: urgent assistance
Attn:
Compliment of the day!
I and my mother write to seek for your assistance and we got your contact from a noble gentleman and his wife (Mr. and Mrs. Steve Baker) who were tourist that came to our refugee camp to give a seminar about AIDS, whom my mother confronted that we are looking for a trust worthy and God-fearing person that can assist us retrieves and invest our funds in oversea, I and my mother will be very happy and appreciate and we welcome your assistance.
First and foremost i must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction and i prayed that my decision to contact you will be given guinea approval considering the fact that we have not know each other before.
> I which to introduce myself to you, Am KESIENA ODIBO from sierra Leon west Africa, I write to inform you my desire to invest and buy a house in your country, Am 22years old the second Son of Mr. Michael. Odibo.My father before his death, he was a diamond/Gold merchant in my country. My late father was shot by rebels on his way ravelling to Louisa a city after Freetown the capital city along with my elder brother. My brother died on the spot why my father was rescue by the UN peace keeping force and was taken to the hospital for medical treatment which he later died after three months. Before he died, he reveal to my mother about a trunk boxes containing $12.5 million US Dollar which he deposited with a security company here in Ghana for safe keeping. My father never discloses the contents of the boxes to the security company to avoid the officials to raise an eyebrow on the funds.
Presently I and my mother are here in Ghana to notify the security company for the claims, and we are staying in the refugee camp. When we got to the security company, we were told that my late father made an agreement bonds with the security company that hey should not release the consignments to any member of my family without a foreign business partner in oversea that is why my mother and I are contacting you and seeking for your assistance.
Therefore, I want you to lecture me and my mother how best we can vest this funds, because my father told us that its dangerous to invest this funds in Africa to avoid suspicious and due to the market instability couple with the economic and political instability facing African countries, that is why we wants to invest in abroad.
For your mutual assistance, myself and my mother have agreed to offer you 25% out of the funds. We have all documents covering the deposit and the ownership which we can fax to you on request. So I will really like you to get back to soon with your direct mobile number and Fax number.
Regards and God Bless
Kesiena Odibo (For the Family)
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