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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: "Miss Leedal Frank" <leedalfrank@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: leedalfrank@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:42:54 +1000
Subject: WE ARE DEPENDING ON YOU.
Attention:
I know you will be supraise to read this line of sad and bore fax from me but i want you to consider the contenT as an urgent issue that required your cooperation and trusty/honesty,let me introduce myself. I am Miss. leedal frank and my brother Mail Frank; we are the children of late Chief Joseph Frank from Sierra Leone.
I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to ask your assistance to claims/transfer our consignment of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000 00) now in the custody of a private Security firm company in Ghana, no one know the content of the consignment as money apart from my family and our family attorney and you, although my father made us to understand that the boxes belongs to him and his foreign partner. Source of the money: My late Father Chief Joseph Frank, a native of Mende District in the Northern province of Sierra Leone, he was the General Manager of Sierra Leone Mining co-operation (S.L.M.C) Freetown.
According to my father, this money was the income accrued from Mining Co-operations over draft and minor sales. Before the peak of the civil war between the rebel's forces of Major Paul Koroma and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from power of the civilian elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels. My father had already made arrangement for his family that is talking about my mother, my brother and myself to be evacuated to Ghana with the CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT he made with the security firm in Ghana through the aid of U.N evacuation team. During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looting of Public Government properties by the rebel forces, the Sierra Leone mining coop. was one of the targets looted and it was destroyed. My father including other top Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result of my father's death and with the news of my uncle's involvement in the air
crash in January it dashed our hope of survival.
The untimely deaths caused my mother's heart failure and other related complications of which she later died in the hospital after we must have spent a lot of money on her early this year. Now my brother and my self are alone in this strange country ghana suffering without any care or help. Without any relation, we are now like refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in you and the boxes deposited in the Security Firm, to this effect.
I humbly solicit your assistance in the following ways.
1. To assist me claim this boxes from the security Firm as our beneficiary
2. To transfer this money (USD$50M) in your name to your country
3. to make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country for us to come over and invest on it, our Adviser/Manager For your assistance I have agreed with my brother that 20% of the total amount will be for your effort/kindness and another 10% to cover all the expenses that might incure during the process of this business transaction, Last, I urge you to keep this transaction strictly confidential as no one knows our where about.
Please as you show your willingness, forward to us your
Full Name,
House/Company Address where consignment will be deliver to.
and cellphonephone/privateFax number for easy communication and for the documents to be fax to you,
International passports,first and second page of it:for identification when the diplomat arrive at your destination.
send to me via my private email earnestly awaiting your response, leedalfrank@yahoo.com
Thanks.
May God bless you as you assist us.
Miss Leedal Frank,
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