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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: lewisphilips47@yahoo.co.in
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:55:13 +0200
Subject: AN INVESTMENT
HELLO,
FROM: MR. LEWIS PHILIPS
DIRECTOR, DELIVERY/OPERATIONS
RE: TRANSFER OF OVER US$15M FOR INVESTMENT.
I am Mr. LEWIS PHILIPS, the Director of Delivery/Operations in a security company here in South Africa. Our firm is a security company of high repute with years of outstanding service to the people of Africa especially top government officials and military leaders here in Africa. I have resolved to contact you through this medium based on business proposal that will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I have not discussed this transaction with anybody because it is of top secret.
To be explicit and straight to the point, Sometime early 2000, a reputable client of ours deposited a consignment in our company's vault for safe keeping. And since then our client has failed to come forward to claim his consignment which has accumulated a considerable amount of money in demurrage. Consequently, in our bide to contact this client to redeem the demurrage which his consignment had accumulated we discovered that our client was the former president of the Federal Republic of Togo, who died of illness early this year.
Since the death of our client President Gmassingbe Nyandema of Togo, none of his benefactors has come forward to claim the consignment with us, which means that non of his relatives or aids had any knowledge of this consignment. Hence out of curiosity I decided to source vault. And to my surprise I discovered that the two boxes that were registered as treasures by our client actually contained a considerable amount of money in United States Dollars estimated to be over US$15million US Dollar.
Since this development I have been nursing plans secretly. I also found out from enquiries and the foreign media that our late client siphoned a lot of money from his country while he was in office as head of state. It is my conviction that the consignment in our vault was part of the money that our client siphoned and now that he is dead there is no trace to this money in our care. I am now soliciting your noble assistance to assist me in transferring this money out of South Africa to your country for immediate investment with your assistance.
I have also decided that you will generously be entitled to 40% of the total amount. Upon my receipt of your reply confirming your willingness to assist me of this transaction, I will immediately arrange and transfer all the rights ownership of this consignment to your name to facilitate your easy clearance and transfer of the complete funds to your country for onwards investment. This transaction is 100% risk free. Please maintain absolute confidentiality on this matter.
I await your most prompt response.
Yours faithfully.
MR. Lewis Philips
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