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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: famil.mail@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 04:05:42 -0700
Subject: seek your help
From: Mr. Oscar Momoh
Attn:
I write to seek your help in the context below, as I want to execute this
transaction for the mutual benefit of our both families, believing that you
will not expose or betray the trust and confident I am about to repose on
you. I am contacting you with the greatest delight and personal respect.
I am the SON of DR ROBERT E.MOMOH the chairman of Sierra Leonia Diamond Mining
Corporation, who was massacred by President Tijani Kabba force in their struggle
to reinstate him back to power. I decided to trust you because I am at a
crossroad and have this feeling we could work this out for our mutual benefit.
Before the death of my father he disclosed to me where he deposited some
consignment in a neighboring country in West Africa. And my father handed
over the document regarding this consignment to me. He kept these consignments
under a Security Company concealed in a trunk box as diamond in their vault
is $62.5 million (USA). But only declared to the company as diamond and due
to previous transaction of depositing diamonds in the past by my late father
it was accepted without any check up. I carefully search and found the security
Company where the consignments were deposited for safe Keeping in their security
vault in the neighboring Country.
The Security Company has accepted to release the consignment factually to
me if I come with my father?s foreign partner. I am seeking your assistance
because my father has declared the record with the company stating that his
foreign partner shall be the authorized person to make claim on this consignment
on my behalf, because of his positioning government on which my father as
his foreign partner gave no name.
To this effect, I request to make the beneficiary of this consignment in
your name as foreign partner to Claim this consignment. For your assistance,
room is Open for negotiations. This is a risk free transaction as my father
deposited this valuable as a personal Belonging. I shall be very Grateful
to hear from you, all documents concerning this are intact with me, please
kindly e-mail me as Soon as possible.
In view of our plight, I pray that you are trustworthy and kind enough to
respond to this call of (S.O.S) to save our family from a hopeless future.
20% of the total sum will be offered to you for your assistance while 3%
will be set aside for any expenses that might arise during the transaction.
Reach me via my above contacts. Meanwhile I remain
I look forward to your quick response, May almighty GOD blesses you and your
family. Please you can also email me back in this email address (oscarmomoh@atlas.cz)
Best Regards
Oscar Momoh
Cell; 00233244667276
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