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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: "Musa Kabbah" <musa@box.az> (may be fake)
Reply-To: musa_78@box.az
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:09:02 +1200
Subject: YOUR URGENT RESPONDS
MUSA KABBAH,
SIERRA LEONEAN
FREETOWN,
WEST AFRICA.
Dear FRIEND,
I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise but your contact
was given to me by a reliable friend of my father working in Ghana Accra
Chambers of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture.
After I told him that I needed a reliable and honest business partner
outside Ghana Accra.
My name is MUSA KABBAH.
I am a Sierra Leonean the son of the late Osman Kabbah,former Director-General of the Government of Gold and Diamond Office (GDDO) in Freetown. He replaced the Lebanese business tycoon Mr Jamil Mohamed
Saheed who was sacked by the government of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.
Unfortunately, my father was attacked by rebels of the Revolutionary
United Front (RUF) in Kono, Eastern Sierra Leone.
He survived the bullet wounds and was hospitalised at the Connaught
Hospital in Freetown where he later died of internal bleeding. Before he died,
he revealed to me that he has US$ 35.MILLION in an Iron Crate which he
lodged in a security company for safe keeping in Accra, Ghana. And he
registered the contents of the box as gold and diamond which belongs to
him and his foreign partner. He also confided in me that he kept the
certificate of the deposit and the keys of the box in his safe.
As at last month, I traced the address of the security company in Ghana.
Backed with the certificate and receipt of the part payment,
I met the Director of the security company with the receipt
for collection of the box. After thorough verifications, he agreed for the
release provided I can come along with the foreign partner who is
involved in the transaction.Based on this development,
I contacted a friend of my father who is working at the Chamber of Commerce
to assist me to seek for a reliable, honest and well-established individual
that has business foresight, he then gave me your contact as the person he believes
will do a fair transaction with me.I propose that you come as the foreign partner
concerned so that we can retrieve the money from the security company.
I have decided that for all assistance and inconveniences, 20% of the total sum
would be yours, while the rest of the remaining balance will be put into investment
opportunities in any profitable areas you might suggest in your country or any where
else you trust.Please keep this proposal in the most confidential manner and I assure
you of our 100% risk free transaction. . While I close here, I hope
that Almighty Allah will give you the power to do this transaction with
me and I am waiting for your urgent responds to this letter.
Thanks so much for your co-operation.
Yours Faithfully
MUSA KABBAH
SIERRA LEONEAN
FREETOWN,
WEST AFRICA.
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