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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: "Chamberlain Duke" <bill_joneslegalfirm@msn.com>
Reply-To: cduke5050@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:13:23 +0000
Subject: Charity
Dear Sir,
As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe
everyone will die someday. My name is Mr. Chamberlain Duke a merchant in
London, England. I have been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. It has
defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a
few months to live, according to medical experts. 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 focused on my business as that was 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 pray
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. I have willed and given most of my
property and assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as
few close friends.
Before illness, I kept some money, twelve and a half million dollars
($12.5million) to be precise in a long term deposit account in a security
company in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Presently, I’m in a hospital. My
doctors told me that I have few months to live. It is my last wish to see
this money distributed to charity organizations. Because so much of my
wealth has been plundered by relatives and friends since my illness, I
cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of
them since the money in the security company is my last fund. My friends and
relative have misused all my funds that I left in their possession.
I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul so, I have decided to
give alms to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last
good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed money to some charity
organizations in the Sudan, Cambodia and Malaysia. Now that my health has
deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself anymore. Please, I beg you in
the name of God to help me collect the deposit from the security company in
Holland and distribute it amongst charity organizations. Use your judgment
to distribute the money and keep 20% of it to yourself. Feel free to
reimburse yourself when you have the
money for any cost you incure during the process of collecting and
distributing the money to charity organizations.
God be with you.
Chamberlain Duke
Email me directly at cduke@yahoo.co.uk
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