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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: j23129@tiscali.ch
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:27:18 +0100
Subject: Request for Goodwill
From: Sajid Omar Faruk
Tel/Fax: 1 206-202-3960 / 206-202-3950
Washington (WA)
Email: j23129@ozu.es
Dear friend,
As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because I believe
everyone will die someday.
My name is Sajid Omar Faruk, from USA; I have been diagnosed with esophageal
cancer, which was discovered very late, due to my laxity in carrying for
my health. It has defiled all forms of medicine, and right now I have only
about a few months to live, according to medical experts. I have since lost
my power of speech and can only manage to write now; as that has been the
only way I am able to communicate.
I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for
anyone not even myself but my business. Though I am very rich, I was never
generous, I was always hostile to people and only focus on my business as
that is the only thing I cared for. But now I regret all this as I now know
that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money
in the world.
I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would
live my life a different way from how I have lived it. Now that I know my
time is near, I have willed and given most of my properties and assets to
my immediate and extended family members and as well as a few close friends.
I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul and so, I have decided
to give alms to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last
good deeds I did on earth. So far, I have distributed money to some charity
organizations in UK, Brazil and Ireland. Now that my health has deteriorated
so badly, I cannot do this my self any more. I once asked members of my
family to close one of my accounts and donate the money, which I have there
to charity organization in Bulgaria; they refused and kept the money to
themselves.
Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with
what I have left for them. The last of my money which only few of them knows
of is the huge cash deposit that I have with my Bank in UK.
I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatched it to charity
organizations.
Regards,
Sajid Omar Faruk
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