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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: "Daniel Kallon" <dankallon@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:20:18 +0000
Subject: Urgent Response
Attn Dear,
How are you and the daily activities including your family? I hope everybody is fine.
Before I proceed, may I humbly introduce myself to your good self, I am Daniel Kallon a citizen of sierra Leone in west Africa and son of the late minister of mines and energy who was killed as a result of the notable role he played during the current civil war going on in my country Sierra Leone.
I am soliciting your help in this transaction that will remain secret and confidential at this stage.
Before the death of my father, while he was on sick bed he confided in me and revealed to me about the money he deposited in a Security Company in Ghana; the sum of $25 million (Twenty five million USD) in the certificate of deposit I was made the next of kin.
But since his death I am living in Accra, Ghana as a refugee.
My late father earlier instructed me not to invest the money in Africa as a whole because of the unstable political and economic situation in Africa that I should look for trusted foreigner to be my foreign partner and beneficiary so that the fund will be invested in his/her country.
I want you to stand as my foreign partner so that both of us can invest the fund together in your country.
Please send me your private phone and fax number, as soon as you receive this mail, this will enable me send you the document relating to the deposit and the modality on how the fund will be transfer to you in your country.
For your assistance you will be entitling to 10% of the total amount, while 5% will be set aside for all the expense you incurred during the process of the transaction.
As soon as this is done, you have to prepare for concrete arrangement that will enable me join you in your country for the investment.
Try as much as possible to keep this transaction secret and confidential at this stage.
Thanks in anticipation for your kindly assistance.
This is the number you will use to reach me.+ 233-24-448-89-31.
Best regard,
Daniel Kallon.
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