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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: rita williams <ritawilliams00@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 14:29:48 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Hello
MISS rita williams
BUNGALO OF PEACE RUE
1000 HENRY AV. 1 LOT 88,
ATTN: DEAREST ONE
Compliment of the season REQUEST FOR INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going intorelationship with you. I know this email may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or writen before except now I have decided to do it,
Well the story goes this, Our mother died long ago when she was about to deliver my most junior brother maxwell, he is 20 years old as of today, based that we lost our mother
so early our father took us so special, we are only from my mother's side, I and the one boy. Introducing
myself, I am MISS rita williams 21 years of age the only daughter of the late Chief and Mrs ROBERT williams my father was a gold and cocoa merchant based in , Abidjan (Ivory Coast) he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips. Before the death of my father on the 29th April 2003 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bed and told me that he has a sum of USD$5.5M (five million five hundred thousand U.S)
deposited in a security company here in Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire, that he used my name as his beloved
daughter for the next of kin in depositing the trunk box containing money in the security company. He also explained to that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business
associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this
money and use it for investment purpose such as as expansion of his existing cocoa business and real
estate management overseas. Meanwhile, my late father told me that the security company does not know the real content in th box, they believed it was an Art
craft of family treasures and important documents of his estate as it was formerly deposited by my late
father. As of now, the consignment has left Abidjan due to the problem of unstable government and also the un agreement long ahead between the newly head of state his excellency president LAURANT GBAGBO and his oposition ALHAJI DARAMAN WATARA over the resent rebels
attack in the country. So for that reason,I ordered the security company here to transfer it to there
representative stourage house in Europe. Moreover, I am willing to offer you $1.000.000 of the total sum as
compersation for your effort and input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated
account overseas, I will be waiting to hearing from you as soon as this email gets to you in
good health. As a matter of fact, the box has already been trnasfered to Europe since on the 25th of October 2003.
I am ready to send to you every relevant documents including the transfer certificates of the box to
Europe if I hears from you as soon as possible. Finally, I will send to you my picture for you to know
actually whom you are dealing and also in responding back to me, you have to send to me aswell your own picture including your private fax and telephone number and your personal home address for security reason of whom I am dealing. I have already choosen your private contact and God has told me to go ahead ?that you will not be a cheater or a betrayal of trust
after the successful conclution of this transaction.
Yours sincerely
MISS rita williams
C/O Maxwell williams
for the familyH
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