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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: "MADAM MARIA LUZA" <edwardmari_morris@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: luzamari_morris@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:31:26 +0100
Subject: Hello Dear
With due respect, trust and humility, I write you this proposal, which I believe it will be a great interest to you. I found your contact while I was doing a private research on the Internetfor a reliable and capable foreign partner that will assist my family and me. That's why I contacted you. I am Mrs.Maria Luza the wife of Mr. Morris Luza of Zimbabwe. During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from the support of our president Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country,all the white and black farmers were ordered to surrender their farms to his party members and his followers.My husband was one of the best farmers in our country, and also the treasurer of the farmer's co-operation. Owing to the fact that the association did not support his idea and so the party members invaded my husband's farms and burnt everything in the farm, Killed my husband and made away with a lot of items in my husband's farm. Before m!
y husband died in the hospital he revealed to me of the trunk box containing $22.6M (TWENTY TWO MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) which he deposited in a Security/deposit house here in Zimbabwe. Due to the numerous treats, which they pose on my children, and I we decided to move out of Zimbabwe because our lives were in danger to take refugee in Ghana. With the assistance of the operation manager of the Security Company who revealed to me of their sister company in Ghana the consignment was transferred to Ghana for security reasons easy claiming and clearance. Now the original agreement which is with me stated that a foreign partner must be a signatory to documents relating to the retrieving and release the of the consignment of which no name was mentioned and the consignment was deposited as a valuable items containing family treasure and achieves. So this is what prompted me to contact you for assistance to bring the trunk box out from the Secur!
ity company/deposit for onward transfer to your account in any desig
nated interest of you. We decided to solicit your help. So if you consider this proposal worth doing indicate your interest. We have agreed to give you 20% of the total sum for helping us to move this money out to the country of your choice. And 10% will be mapped out for expenses both of us may incur during this transaction and 70% is for family to be invested in your country. NOTE: That this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely confidential. Thanks and God bless you. MARIA LUZA (MRS) FOR THE FAMILY
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