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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: "Mrs. Malissa Pointer" <malissapointer11@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:46:57 +0000
Subject: It's Malissa Pointer.
Dearly Beloved
It is by the grace of the Lord that I send you this Letter, having
known the truth, I have no choice than to do what is lawful and right in
the sight of the Lord for eternal life and in the sight of man for the
Witness of God's mercy and glory upon my life.
By way of introduction I am Mrs. Malissa Pointer the wife of Mr. Harry
Pointer.
My husband worked in his life time with the Chevron / Texaco in Kenya
for Fifteen years before he died in the year 2001. We were married for
ten years without a child. My Husband died after a brief illness that
lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both born again
christians.
Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a Child outside my
matrimonial home which my religion is against.
When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of US $9.5M. (Nine
Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars) with a Security company in
Europe.
The funds where deposited as family valuables / treasures for security
reasons. Hence they are not aware of the real contents of the
consignment.
Presently, I'm in a hospital in Kenya where I have been undergoing
treatment for esophageal cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk
and my doctors have told me that I have only a few weeks to live. It is
my last wish to see this money distributed to charity organizations any
where in the World. Because relatives and friends have plundered so
much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony of
entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them for personal reasons.
Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me Stand and collect the
Funds from the security company I want a person that is God fearing
that will use this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows
propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is
maintained.
It is said that blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision
because I don't have any child that will inherit this money.
I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I
am going to be in the bosom of the Lord.
I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my
soundless voice and presence of my husband's relatives around me always
just for the fact that they want to lay claims to the funds they know
nothing about.
I don't want them to know about this development. With God all things
are possible.
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of a
representative who is in Europe as he will be the one to assist you in
laying claims for these funds.
I would advise strictly here that you contact me via my alternate email
address malissapointer11@gmail.com for personal reasons as i feel more
secured with the email account to make this whole affair discrete.
Yours Ever.
Malissa Pointer.
N.b pls contact me via my personal email account
malissapointer11@gmail.com if you find it in your heart to be of help.
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