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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: "ideal williams" <ideal@supercable.net.ve>
Reply-To: davidwilliams@chong.net
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:14:42 -0700
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU?REPLY ASAP
Strictly confidential:
Dear Sir,
Re: collection of fund ($USD152, 000,000.00) under special
arrangement.
Pardon me if I have offended you by contacting you for such
a big
transaction through an ordinary letter which makes it
suspicious
considering the type of fraudulent proposals moving around
the world today.
However, I was advised to explain this transaction to you on
face to face
meeting. I could not do this because of the situation in the
world today
not being sure of your reaction.
I am Mr. DAVID WILLIAMS, a consultant and broker from
Kingston Jamaica. I
was hired by a Japanese business man to broker an investment
deal
between himself and oil company in Venezuela. This deal was
executed in
January 1997 and matured for termination in 2001 On
maturity, the
Japanese businessman and the oil firm decided to terminate
the investment
in cash to avoid payment of investment tax which amounted to
several millions
of U.S dollars to the America internal revenue service
(IRS). A special
arrangement was made between a top Japanese banker working
with Japanese
bank in New York, the oil company and the businessman to
terminate the
investment in cash payment under a fictitious name which
happened to
be the same with your name, with an arrangement to change it
latter
with a power of attorney which they prepared and handed over
to the top
banker. I was directly involved, well paid and mandated to
organize and
carry out the deal. All the cash was withdrawn in November
2001 and
transported to Europe by direct bank vault to vault
delivering to a
private diplomatic storage in Europe for safe keeping
pending the
collection. The real content of the boxes were not declared
to the
storage as it was delivered as personal family treasure and
diamonds.
The code for the storage, secret codes for the opening of
the boxes
and its keys were all handed over to me.
Mr. Takashi the New York business man was planning to go to
Europe by
mid of November 2001 with me for the collection when the
unexpected
happened in September 11th attack on the twin tower which
claim his
life
and that of the top banker. This left me devastated and
confused as I
have not yet handed over the deposit details to the owner
and the power
of attorney prepared for the change which was signed was
still with
the banker in his office which was also lost. It was agreed
with the
storage that the consignment would be collect on or before
24 months
from
the date of delivery. Since due date the diplomatic storage
manager has
been calling me to bring or tell the owner to come over for
collection.
My friend, since then I have been looking for any reliable
person with
the same name to collect these consignment under special and
well
negotiated arrangement until I got your email contact.
All the needed secret code and identification and collection
are all
with me. Be rest assured that this transaction has been well
organized,
100% safe, legal, risk free and should be kept very
confidential.
Please, contact me for the way forward in this transaction.
If you
think we can do this together in trust.
Alternative email: davidwilliams_3000@yahoo.com
Feel free to reach me on both of my email accounts.
Expecting to hear from you soon.
Regards,
DAVID WILLIAMS.
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