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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: "IRINA IVANOVA" <irvangood@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: irvangood1@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 20:38:26 +0100
Subject: Please keep private
Good Day dear,
. My name is Madame IRINA IVANOVA a Russian nationality. I lost my husband few years back in a ghastly motor accident.Before his death, he deals on cocoa and coffee business.I inherited the sum of US$ 11,000,000 from him.
Presently, I have a big problem with my husband's brothers because they wanted to confiscate all the wealth and landed properties he left behind.
The above sum was the only thing I was able to secure among all his properties. Because of their pressure and fear that they might discover the existence of this fund, I quickly put the funds in a box coded and arranged with some diplomatic agents who helped me to send it to Africa, in a security and finance company in Abidjan,Cote D'ivoire where my late husband goes to do his coffee and Cocoa business.
For security reasons, the box was declared as containing family valuables. In this case, the company in Africa does not know that the exact content of the box was money. I am sending you this message because I don't have any trust on my husbands brothers and the country where the fund is deposited in Africa is presently in civil war.This is giving me sleepless nights. I am therefore soliciting for your assistance to help me secure the consignment to your country so that the funds can be invested promptly. If you agree to help me, we shall negotiate on what will be your compensation for this noble assistance. After the death of my husband, his brothers started treating me like a prisoner. They forced me to release all his banks information and other important documents. They did not stop there; they are monitoring my movements till today to extent that I can not go out freely nor answer or make telephone calls. They can only give me foods and shelt!
er and nothing else. I can understand that with such treatment, their plan is to do away with my life so that they can feel comfortable with what they snatched from me.
It is because of this problem that I decided to contact you for a help to rescue me from this ugly situation before I die here. Apart from this money in Africa, I dont have any other thing in my life and the company charges US$30.00 per a day for safeguarding the consignment till today. My financial situation is completely zero. Upon receipt of your response, I will send you the contact of the company in Africa so that you can open up communications with them as my foreign partner who wants to help me secure the consignment to your country.You will ask them to send the consignment to directly to your country. When this is successfully done and the funds under your custody, I will secretly arrange my escape from here to join you so that we can work on the funds investment. I am counting on you to save my life because I have a very serious problem now.
Sincerely yours,
Madame IRINA IVANOVA
Email: irvangood1@yahoo.com <mailto:irvangood1@yahoo.com>
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