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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: "Grace Savimbi" <gsavimbi@gmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: gsavimbi@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:51:49 +0100
Subject: URGENT PROPOSAL
Greetings to you.
I got your contact in my search for a trustworthy Foreigner that will assist me in my present Predicament, as I don't even know whom to trust so I allowed the spirit of God to lead me.
Firstly, let me introduce myself, I am Mrs. Grace Savimbi, one of the wife's of the late leader of the National Union of the Total Liberation of Angola (U.N.I.T.A) Jonas Savimbi who died on the February 22, 2002 by the bullet of the ruling government troop.
My late husband was controlling the Northern part of Angola as a rebel leader which the land is blessed with diamonds which my late husband used to his advantage by mining and selling of these diamonds to foreign individuals and government in return for huge amount of US Dollars and Ammunitions which forms part of the reasons he coupled with determination and was able to sustain in his troop for 30 years of civil war.
Before his untimely death, he left a huge amount of money, which amounted to $8.5 million (Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars). He kept the money under my care in case of eventuality so that the future of our children and I will be secure. When we heard the bad news of his death, his trusted aid moved me and my two children and some members of our family out of our hiding; we traveled to the Republic of Ghana where I am making this contact. The money has been coded and secretly deposited in a security company and declared as? FAMILY TREASURE? For onward courier to reliable foreigner in an advanced economy like your country for safe keeping and Investment's, I am offering you 30% of the total money if you will assist me to move this money out of its present location as the foreign beneficiary, while I and my family will have 70%. I am assuring you that this transaction is risk free, what we need from you is your co-operati!
on and sincerity of purpose.
Power of Attorney/Transfer of right and privilege would be issued in your Name. I will wait for your response before I can open up the modus operandi of this transaction to you in detail. Please read the below Africa news regarding my late husband Jonas Savimbi (May his soul rest in perfect peace.
Amen...
http://www.the-idler.com/IDLER-02/3-16.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1839000/1839252.stm
Thanks for your understanding.
Mrs. Grace Savimbi
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