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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: richard_wilford3@handbag.com
Reply-To: mr_richardwilford@o2.pl
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:57:48 +0200
Subject: Re:Awaiting your response.
Mr. Richard Wilford
Spain Barcelona
email:wilford321@netscape.net
Tel:+34 685 582 828
Dear friend,
I am Mr. Richard Wilford, the only son of late Chief John Wilford from Sierra-Leone.
I got your contact from the internet directory and need assistance from you.
My sources of your contact gave me encouragement and confidence to write
you.
I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek for your assistance
to transfer our cash of (Thirty Million United Stated Dollars) (30,000,000.00)
now in the custody of the Security and trust Company here in Spain to your
private account pending our arrival to your country.
SOURCES OF THE FUND
My late father, chief John Richard Wilford, a native of Mende District in
the northern province of Sierra-Leone, he was the general manager of Sierra-Leone
Mining Co-operation (S.L.M.C) Freetown. According to my father, this money
was the income accrued from mining co-operation overdraft and minor sales.
Before the peace of the civil war between the rebel forces of Major Paul
Korormah and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost
destroyed my country, following the forceful removal of the civilian elected
president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah from power by the rebels. My father had already
made arrangement for his family, my mother, my little sister and myself to
be evacuated to Spain, with our persona effort and the box containing the
money. My father deposited the box in a private security company here in
Spain for the safe custody until after the war when he will join us.
During the war in my country, and following the! Indiscriminate searching
of the public and government properties by the rebels forces, the Sierra-Leone
mining corporation. Was one of the targets looted and destroyed. My father
including other top government functionaries were attacked and killed by
the rebels because of the relationship with the civilian president Ahmed
Tejan Kabbah.
As a result of my father's death, our hope of survival was shattered. The
untimely deaths caused my mother heart failure and other related complications
of which she later died in hospital after we spent a lot of money on her.
Now, my 16 years
old sister and myself are alone in this strange country suffering without
any care or help. Without any relation, we are now like refugees and orphans.
Our only hope now is in you and the box deposited in a Security Company.
To this effect, I humbly solicit for your assistance in the following ways.
To assist me claim this box from Security Company as co-beneficiary. To transfer
this money in your name and to your country and to make good arrangement
for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country, and you will
be the caretaker, and also to secure a college for my little sister and myself
in your country to further our education. And to make arrangement for our
traveling with you to your country after you have transferred this fund.
Most importantly, the security company officials do not know the exact content
of the box because it was declared as family valuables. The whole document
issued after deposit is in my custody. For your assistance, I have conceded
25% of the money to your efforts assistance.
Best of Regards
Richard Wilford.
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