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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. Ruth Serena" <ruthserena@planetsolomonisland.com>
Reply-To: rthsmrs@computermail.net
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 02:02:27 +0000
Subject: Please endeavour to use it for the children of God
Please endeavour to use it for the children of God
From: Mrs. Ruth Serena
Dear Beloved,
Let me first of all inform you, I got your email address from a mail
directory and decided to mail you for a permission to go ahead.
I am the above named person from England. I am married to Dr Hillary
Serena who worked with a construction company in Asia for twenty years
before he died in the tsunami disasters. We were married for eleven years
without a child. Until 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 the Bible is against. When my late
husband was alive he deposited the sum of $8.6 Million (Eight Million
six hundred thousand U.S. Dollars) with Bank in London, England.
Presently, this money is still with the Bank. Recently, the management
of the Bank just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive
the money or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to
receive it on my behalf. I am presently in a hospital in The Netherlands
where I have been undergoing treatment cancer of the
lungs, I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me
that I have only a few months to live.
Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to church or
better still a Christian individual that will utilize 80% of this money
to fund churches, orphanages and widows around the world in my name. The
Bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand that giveth. Exodus 14
VS 14 says that "the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace". As
soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Bank. I
will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the
original - beneficiary of this fund. I want you and the church to always
pray for me because the Lord is my shepherd. My
happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. Whoever that
wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and truth. Please
assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. Remain
blessed in the name of the Lord.
Yours in Christ
Mrs. Ruth Serena
Reply to - rthsmrs@computermail.net
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