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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: martins <martinsezeago@csucsposta.hu>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 18:16:07 +0200
Subject: Cry for help(Reply urgently).
Good-day!
May the peace of the lord be with you, this letter may come to you as a surprise since it is coming from someone you have not met before, dear, we got your contacts through the internet and we decided to contact you for this venture below.
I am Martins Ezeago, with my little sister Linda of nineteen years old (19yrs).Our mother died at our tender ages, since then, our father has been taking very good care of us before his untimely death by the present political crisis here in my country Nigeria, Since the death of our father our condition has been very bad, no more schooling, and other important amenities we can have, we are astray and stranded due to the death of father.
We left to our maternal home since feb.10th 2003,luckly to us, our father's lawyer visited us and informed us that our father deposited one (1) box containing 13.5million US dollars in one security firm in abroad but registered it as a family treasure belonging to his foreign partner based in abroad.
However, we have searched,our father's private keeping vault in our house and we have seeing all the vital documents covering the consignment bearing foreign partner which will be sent to you as soon as you indicate your interest to assist us in this claim.
Now we are looking for a trust worthy foreigner who will assist us by traveling to abroad where the security firm is located to secure the $13.5 million US dollars on our behalf for investment purpose in your country under your instructions.
We agreed to offer the person 20% of the total amount and 10% for any expenses he may spend during the processes of the transaction. We shall furnish you with more details information’s as soon as you indicate your interest to help us. Thanks and may God almighty bless us all (Amen).
Please reply through our private email address: martins_ezeago@yahoo.com for security reasons.We await your urgent response as soon as possible.
Best regards
Martins & Linda Ezeago
Tel: 234-803-375-8677
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