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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 Bennie Khobe" <mrsbenniekhobe@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:19:28 +0000
Subject: i need your help
GOODAY SIR
This proposal to you is strictly confidential, with due respect .Sorry at
this perceived confusion or stress you may have receiving this letter from
me, Since we have not known ourselves or met previously. Despite that, I am
constrained to write you this letter because of the urgency of it. I am Mrs.
Bennie Khobe, the wife of late Gen. Maxwell Khobe former ECOMOG [West
African peacekeeping force] commander who died in the Sierra Leone civil
disturbance [War].
My three daughters and I are trapped in obnoxious custom traditional rites.
We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the hands of my late
husbands family, simple because I did not
bear a male child for my late husband By tradition, all that my husband had,
[wealth] belongs to his brothers/family and myself is to be married by his
immediate younger brother. They have taken all that I suffered with my
husband to acquire including treasure, houses and his bank accounts closed
by them. I wanted to escape to the United State of America [USA} with my
children on exile, but again they conspired and stole my international
passport and other traveling documents to further frustrate me. Thank God,
two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code [KTC} from SECURITIES COMPANY, that
my husband deposited U.S $5.5 Million [FIVE Million five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars] cash with this company.
It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact some one, a
foreigner like you to help me receive/secure these funds overseas and to
help invest it on our behalf as well, while we find a way of getting out to
meet with you in your country. These funds are kept on a CODE with the
Securities Company to avoid detection, seizure or diversion. I have had
several telephone discussions with the Assistant Director of the Securities
Company, Mr. MARTINS PHILPI who has express willingness to help me on
meeting the company�s demand. This is why I have contacted you to
help save my children and I, receive these funds on our behalf. But, you
would need to give me sufficient assurance that if you help me, you would
not divert the funds
. My children and I have resolved to give you 20% of the total sum. This is
all my children and I have got to live on. Please, I have reposed my
confidence in you and hope you will not disappoint me. I will forward you
the contact of Mr. MARTINS PHILPI for you to contact him and ask him the
possibility of receiving this fund on our behalf as the sole beneficiary
look forward to your urgent response.
Best Personal Regards.
MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU
Mrs. Bennie Khobe.
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