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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: "lUIS Tasharofi .Jnr" <luis@tasharofi-jnr.com>
Reply-To: tasharofi-jnr@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:28:33 +0000
Subject: HELLO FRIEND.
Gooday Sir/Madam,
I am Luis Tasharofi Jnr. I am a collage student of London School of
Economics, U.K. I am compelled to contact you concerning a business deal,
which I believe will be beneficial to you and I.
My father, His Excellency, Ambassador Krikor Tasharofi was a diplomat. In
his lifetime, he was an Ambassador emeritus. While in office, he was highly
connected because of his expertise in transferring money to coded accounts
for important Clients at short notices and without detection. Due to his
connections in high places, at the end of his tenure as an Ambassador, he
became acquainted with important African leaders, politicians etc who
patronized him to help them transfer money out of Africa and this he did
with relative ease.
I was quite close to him and was privy to his business deals because he used
to confide in me. I was also aware of his numerous trips to Europe and the
Americas to make large cash deposits in several Banks.
Recently, my father came to England en route Liechtenstein to make large
cash deposits for one of his clients. We met on July 6th, 2005 at his hotel
room and on July 7th, 2005, I learnt that he was one of the victims of the
London Terror attack. After the recovery of his body, I and my other
siblings were making arrangements for his burial when on July 27th, 2005,
one of the Embassy’s staff contacted me and informed me that my late father
took him into confidence and told him of some boxes kept at the Embassy’s
storage house. The Staff also informed me that now that my father was dead,
he had no option than to hand the boxes over to me.
Upon collecting the boxes, I opened it and to my surprise, it contains large
sum of money to the Value of US$84 Million US Dollars. I quickly close the
boxes and left it there as the embassy storage house did not know what is
the content in the boxes. My problem now is how to move this money out of
the U.K. into a designated Bank account. I have tried to use my late
father’s old routes to transfer it but met a brick wall and that is why I
have decided to seek for external assistance in the matter.
I can assure you that this business is 100% risk free, as my late father’s
Clients who owns the money would never suspect that I am involved. For your
assistance I will offer you 20% of the total sum, for your assistance so
please get back to me as soon as possible to enable me give you the details
on how we are going to proceed.
1: Full name
2:Direct telephone number and fax
3:An identification of you such as international passport /drivers license
I eagerly await your urgent response to my private
email.tasharofi-jnr@hotmail.com
Yours truly,
Luis Tasharofi JNR.
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