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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "FROM SHARON COLE KHADIBE" <david_cole221@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: sharon_cole221@yahoo.co.in
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:38:05 +0000
Subject: DEAREST MAIL ME BACK
DEAREST,
PLEASE RESCUE OUR LIFE AND HELP US RECEIVE THIS MONEY IN YOUR COUNTRY.
THIS LETTER MAY PROBABLY COME TO YOU AS A SURPRISE SINCE YOU NEITHER
KNOW US NOR HAVE HAD ANY PERSONAL OR BUSINESS CONTACT WITH US. MY WRITING
TO YOU IS WITH THE HOPE THAT YOU MAY BE WILLING AND CAPABLE OF ASSISTING
US FOR A PRIVATE AND ONFIDENTAL TRANSACTION.
MY NAME IS SHARON COLE KHADIBE AND MY BROTHER IS DAVID COLE KHADIBE, FROM
COTE D"IVORE, SEEKING ASYLUM UNDER (UNCHR) AM 20 YEARS WHILE MY BROTHER IS
27 YEARS OLD BY AGE, MY FATHER WAS THE FORMER MILITARY PRESIDENT OF COTE
D'IVORE (GEN.COLE KHADIBE) WHO WAS MURDERED BY THE REBELS ON THE 19TH SEPT.
2002 DURING A COUP ATTEMPT.
AFTER THE TRAGIC INCIDENT, WE RAN TO DAKAR-SENEGAL FOR SAFETY. WE WERE
INFORMED BY OUR AGED MOTHER, THAT OUR FATHER DEPOSITED MONEY (US$8.2m)
EIGHT MILLION TWO HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS, IN A SECURITY COMPANY AS
A FAMILY TREASURE UNDISCLOSED TO THE SECURITY COMPANY WITH MY BROTHER NAME
AS NEXT OF KIN. OUR AGED MOTHER ADVISE US TO LOOK FOR A FOREIGNER WHO WILL
ASSIST US FOR THE TRANSFER OF THE FUND AND EXPLAIN TO US THAT THE DOCUMENTS
OF THE DEPOSIT OF THE SECURITY COMPANY IS WITH HER AND LATER HANDOVER
EVERYTHING TO US.
THE BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WE REQUEST FROM YOU IS THAT WE INTEND TO USE PART
OF THIS MONEY FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES OVERSEAS THROUGH YOURSELF PERSONALLY
OR YOUR COMPANY AS OUR FOREIGN BUSINESS PARTNER AND A FRONT FOR TRANSFERING
THE MONEY TO YOUR COUNTRY.THE CONSIGNMENT WILL BE TRANSFER OUT TO YOUR
DESTINATION IN ANY WAY CONVENIENT TO YOU.
THIS TRANSACTION SHOULD NOT APPEAR MUCH A SURPRISE TO YOU.I WILL LIKE YOU TO
KEEP THIS AS A SECRET FOR ME BECAUSE OF SECURITY PURPOSE AND OF OUR PRESENT
SITUATION AS REFUGEE AND FOR THE REBELS.
I AM HOPING YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO CO-OPERATE WITH US IN THIS PROPOSED BUSINESS
RELATIONSHIP, PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATLEY ON THE EMAIL ADDRESS ABOVE OR FOR
THE MODALITIES OF THE TRANSACTION AND MORE EVIDENCE FOR OUR PROBLEMS.
BEST REGARDS.
SHARON KHADIBE.
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