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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 margarette kobe" <margiekobe@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 06:48:28 +0000
Subject: re:humanitarian assistance
Please i have this situation for which i plead for
your assistance.I am Mrs. Margaret Kobe, the wife
of
late Gen. Maxwell
Kobe former ECOMOG [WestAfrican peacekeeping
force]
commander who died in the Sierra Leone civil
war. My three daughters and I are presently
trapped in harsh customs and traditional rites
since
the death of my husband.. We have
suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the
hands
of my late husbands family members, simple because
I
did not
bear a male child [heir apparent] for my late
husband.
By tradition all that my husband had (wealth)
belongs
to his brothers/family and I myself is to be
married
to his immediate younger brother which i refused.
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
document
to
further frustrate me. But God is great for He will
not let me mourn forever.two weeks ago, I
received a message from my late husband army
colleague that my late
husband deposited a trunk box with
valuables and cash of US $22 Million (TWENTY TWO
Million
U.S. Dollars) with a security company in ghana .it took them a
long
time to locate me as i
now leave in abidjan ivory coast after the demise
of
my husband.as it is i
can not take this money here in africa so close to
my late husbands people.
It has therefore, become
very necessary and
urgent to contact someone, 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.i am
desperate and ready to take any chance with a
foreigner
who can assist me.
These funds are kept on a CODE with the Securities
Company to avoid detection, seizure or diversion.I
have had discussions with the
Managing Director of the Security Company, 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 to receive these funds
on our
behalf. But, you would need to give me
assurance that if you help me, you would not
divert
the funds. My children and I have resolved to give
you
25% of the total sum. This is all my children and
I
have got to live on please.
I will forward all the documents to you and
explain
to you
how you can assist me as my late husband's foreign
partner.do give me your private email and phone number.
I anxiously await your answer to me.
Mrs. Margarett Kobe
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