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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: "Joseph Arap Moi." <josearap@netscape.net>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:04:14 +0100
Subject: For your kind attention
For your kind attention, Firstly, my apologies for this intrusion on your privacy. I am Joseph Arap Moi, the son of the former president of Kenya Mr. Daniel Arap Moi. I came to know you in the course of my search for a reliable and trustworthy person. I decided to contact you because I believe you are a reputable person that can help my mother and me in our present situation. I count on your integrity and honesty to be able to handle my proposal to you. Before the death of my father Mr. Arap Moi, who was the president of Kenya, a blessed country in East Africa, he was involved in many monetary deals with many European companies within and outside my country. These companies where used as a means of transferring funds gotten from the sales of Gold and Diamonds to foreign accounts and security Vaults in Europe, America and Asia. Amongst the companies he registered was GOLDENBERG COMPANY, which was used as front by him and his partners to depos!
it a huge some of money totalling US$76,000,000.00 (Seventy Six Million United States Dollars). The company has since been declared bankrupt while the funds have been moved to a security and finance company in Europe for safe keeping. For more information you can visit these website: (1) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3338023.stm> (2)<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3025878.stm%> The above fund has since been shared amongst the directors of GOLDENBERG COMPANY and my father. My father's share came to US15.2M. Before the death of my father, he handed all the documents regarding the deposit of the trunk box to my mother as settlement, my mother is his sixth wife and he loved her dearly. He did not want us to suffer in the hands of the other wives and relatives. My father asked my mother to invest these funds overseas and use part of it for my education. My mother been illiterate d!
oes not have an idea on what business venture to invest in or how to g
o about in clearing the funds from the security company. That is why we seek your assistance to clear the funds from the security and finance company and invest it on behalf of myself and my mother in a profitable business venture. We are therefore soliciting for your assistance as an honest and trustworthy person that is willing and capable to travel to Europe to clear the deposited box from the security and finance company and advice on a profitable venture that we can invest in your , we are willing to offer 20% of total amount to you. Please indicate your willingness to assist us by responding positively to this message. We are expecting to hear from you. Please contact me only through this confidential email address: josearap@netscape.net </ym/Compose?To=josearap@netscape.net&YY=82983&order=down&sort=date&pos=1&view=a&head=b> Best Regards Joseph Arap Moi.
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