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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: "Mark Williams" <maesk@box.az> (may be fake)
Reply-To: markwill@box.az
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:00:13 +0100
Subject: FromMark Williams(Urgent Reply Needed)
Dear friend,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into
business relationship with you. I beleive you are a
reputable and responsible trustworthy person
I can do business with, as a matter of trust,
I must not hesitate to confide
in you for this simple and sincere business.
I am the only child of my late parents, Dr.& Mrs. Jean Williams.
My father was a very wealthy Gold Merchant based in
Darka-Senegal, My father was poisoned to death by
his business associates on one of their outings to discuss
a business deal. Before the death of my father on the 24th
November 2003 in a Private Hospital in Senegal, he secretly
Told me that he has some money with a security company in
Europe which amounts to the sum of fifteen Million five
hundred thousand United States Dollars deposited as
"Photographic Materials"with a Security Trust Company
in Europe with my name as the Next of kin.
Also his last words, was that I should make sure
that i look for some one who will help me collect
this money for me immediately after his burial so
that his enemies will not know my where about,
then from there that I should find a possible way
of moving out of Africa and naturalize in a foreign
country where I can put up solid investment with
with the money. Right now, am staying here with a
Teacher and his family of 4.Although they are very
poor, but they are also very caring.According to my
dad, it was because of his wealth that he was
poisoned my his business associates.
Therefore, I should seek for a foreign partner in
a country of my choice where I will transfer this
money and use it for Investment purposes specifically,
he advised that I should invest in Real Estate.
I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways;
1. To serve as the guardian of this fund.
2. To assist me in putting this sum of money in safe
keeping by acceptingto recieve it from the Security
company with a letter of Authorization from me.
3. To make arrangement for me to come over to your
country to further my education and,
4. To secure residential permit for me in
your country.
Moreover, I am willing to offer you a percentage
that you will not refuse from the total sum as
compensation for your effort/input after the
successful completion of the transaction.
The details of the Security Company, the Certificate
of Deposit and the Deposit's Pin Code (DPC) as well
as the depositor's reference number will be released
to you as soon as we established a cordial relationship
and have the full Identity of each other. You will agree
with me that it will be unimaginable doing a transaction of
this magnitude without prior knowing each other, I
will need you to send to me your Telephone and Fax
Numbers for further communication.
If you are not Interested, Please do not reply to
this mail, delete it from your system.
Thank you while expecting to hear from you soon.
Mark Williams
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