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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: "Tafa Frank Balogun" <tafafrankbalogun111@balogun111.com>
Reply-To: tafafrankbalogun@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:16:49 +0000
Subject: God Bless You
Dear Friend,
May the good God give you the wisdom to understand my predicaments.My name
is Tafa Frank Balogun,the eldest son of the former inspector General of
police in Nigeria.My father has been in control of the police in Nigeria for
many years until recently.
I have to let you know that we have a dictator ruling Nigeria and he has
decided to eliminate my father simply because my father refused doing some
of the dictator's distardly acts which he wanted my father to carry out.Some
of them are eliminating some top oppositions,etc.He has decided to tarnish
his image by saying that my father is a corrupt man.He had since removed and
arrested my father.My father has been in detention for some months now and
has been denied medical attention.The evil govt has also denied any of my
family members from seeing him in detention.I saw my father last when he
appeared in a court being run by the evil govt of the day.He confided in me
that he is not going to survive the hardship he is passing through in the
hands of the security agents of the Govt.He has been diagnosed of having
kidney disease but the govt has refused for any medical attention to be
giving to him.
Worrisome is that they have seized my father's properties and has frozen all
his bank accounts.All we have left is the house we live in right now.My
father confided in our family lawyer of the sum of $3m(Three million United
States Dollars) worth of BOND kept in a financial security company here in
Nigeria and he has directed me to transfer this said amount to a foreign
country and invest there with my mother if he does not survive it.This is
the only thing the govt do not know about.
I therefore, solicit for your help to make it possible for me to transfer
this fund to your country and invest there.I promise you a reasonable
percentage when we discuss the details.
What I need from you now are-:
1)Your personal telephone number.
2)Your name and contact address.
I await eagerly to hear from you.God bless you as you help the needy
ones.
Sincerely Yours,
Tafa Frank Balogun(Jnr)
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