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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: "Aminatu M Bolkiah" <royalfamily2000@arabtop.net> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:48:15 +0400
Subject: ROYALFAMILY
Asallam alaiykum,
I got your reliable contact from a Brunei business diary and further explicit investment information about assistance since the incarceration of my family and our departure from Borneo-Brunei palace due to severe human rights abuses occurring in my country.
I am Aminatu M Bolkiah the only child of prince Jefri Bolkiah, Former finance minister of Brunei, the tiny oil-rich Island of Borneo, I will save your time by not amplifying much of my extended Royal family history, which has already been disseminated by the international media during the controversial dispute between my late father and his stepbrother, The sultan of Brunei Sheik Muda Hassanal Bolkiah.
You may know from the international media that the sultan accused my late father of financial mismanagement and impropriety of $1.2 billion dollars. This was as a result of the Asian financial crisis that made my late father's company Sheldon Development Company and government owned Brunei investment company to be declared bankrupt during his tenure as a member of the Asian exchange committee .How ever my late father was kept under house arrest, his bank accounts and private properties including a crude oil export refinery were later confiscated by the sultanate.
Furthermore during this unfortunate period, I was advised to evacuate my residence for Saudi Arabia were I can take refugee in order to avoid further prosecution from the sultan and his security operatives, but before I could do that I was arrested placed under house arrest by the
sultan and no access to a phone but a Pentium 1 computer from which I am sending you this mail. Some of the guards here are still loyal to me.
Before my arrest, I deposited this (FUNDS) under special arrangements with a financial company in different countries abroad for safe keeping until my problems are over. The money were spitted and kept in the following countries in this proportion: US$ 10Million in Spain and $ 15Million in United Arab Emirates. Hence I seek your good assistance in clamming and investing my funds in a profitable venture so as to facilitate future survival for my family.
Kindly observe here that no terms of compensation or payment have been disclosed yet until your consent is acknowledged.you can send me email at?royalfamily2000@arabtop.net
Wa-sallam,
Aminatu M Bolkiah
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