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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: "Betty Campbell" <bettycampbell@flashmail.com>
Reply-To: bettycampbell12@yahoo.it
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:35:27 -0800
Subject: Hi dear
Good day,
I got your contact from my search for a reliable,
trust,worthy and competent business manager/hard working
person who will be willing and able to develop his or her
businesses/profession to a greater height and who also can
be trusted to be my friend to assist me and help me out of a
problem facing me, which I believed you could be trusted and
be worthy to be that friend that can help me.
I am Betty Campbell, 25 years old girl from Barbados, which
I and my family (my mother who died four years ago here in
London, Father and myself) immigrated to London - United
Kingdom 21 years ago. I have diploma in accounting and I
also worked in my father trading company here in London
called Campbell trading Enterprises as an accounting
officer. A year later after the death of my mother, my
father got married to a British lady who made life miserable
for me up to a certain circumstances that made me to
developed the interest in establishing a business investment
outside London - U.K. without my step mother or any one
close to her knowing about it. Hence I contacted you for
friendship and business relationship.
The fund in question proposed for this project is
US$7.8million (Seven Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars Only), which I will like you to receive it on
my behalf and to invest it in your business or in any
business that you think will be profitable in your country.
Please let me know more about yourself and also let me know
if you can be able to receive the money for me and invest it
on a good and profitable business in your country without
exposing me, so as to give you all the necessary documents
and details needed to make the money transferred to you.
Please write back if only you know you are capable enough to
execute this project in your country.
Please for the sake of confidentiality and utmost secrecy
this deal required, kindly reply me back through my
confidential email address: bettycampbell12@yahoo.it
Yours faithfully,
Betty Campbell.
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