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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: "kagbo kabbah" <kagbo_kabbah04@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 21:31:50 +0000
Subject: REQUEST FOR AN URGENT ASSISTANCE
MR KAGBO KABBAH.
BURKINA FASO OUGADOUGOU,
WEST AFRICA.
Dear FRIEND,
I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise but i got your contact
when i was seaching through a person who will assist me to claim my late
father wealth as i need a reliable and honest business partner outside
Burkina Faso.
My name is MR KAGBO KABBAH.
I am a Sierra Leonean and the SON of the late
Osman Kabbah, former Director-General of the Government of Gold and
Diamond Office (GDDO) in Freetown. He replaced the Lebanese business tycoon
Mr Jamil Mohamed Saheed who was sacked by the government of President Ahmed
Tejan Kabbah. Unfortunately, my father was attacked by rebels of the
Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Kono, Eastern Sierra Leone.
He survived the bullet wounds and was hospitalised at the Connaught Hospital
in Freetown where he later died of internal bleeding. Before he died, he
revealed to me that he has $18.5m (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand
US dollars) in an Iron Crate which he lodged in a security company for safe
keeping in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. And he registered the contents of the
box as gold and diamond which belongs to him and his foreign partner. He
also confided in me that he kept the certificate of the deposit and the keys
of the box in his safe.
As last month, I traced the address of the security company in Ouagadougou,
Capital of Burkina Faso. Backed with the certificate and receipt of the part
payment, I met the Director of the security company with the receipt for
collection of the box. After thorough verifications, he agreed for the
release provided I can come along with the foreign partner who is involved
in the transaction.
Based on this development, I contacted a friend of my father who is working
at the Chamber of Commerce to assist me to seek for a reliable, honest and
well-established individual that has business foresight, he then gave me
your contact as the person he believes will do a fair transaction with me.
I propose that you come as the foreign partner concerned so that we can
retrieve the money from the security company. I have decided that for all
assistance and inconveniences, 20% of the total sum would be yours, while
the rest of the remaining balance will be put into investment opportunities
in any profitable areas you might suggest in your country or any where else
you trust.
Please keep this proposal in the most confidential manner and I assure you
of our 100% risk free transaction. Please let me be informed of your
decision to come so that I can work on your visa. While I close here, I hope
that Almighty Allah will give you the power to do this transaction with me
and I am waiting for your urgent responds to this letter. You can send me
Email through the above address,
Thanks so much for your co-operation.
Yours Faithfully
MR KAGBO KABBAH.
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