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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: "sara kome" <sarrakomesara@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: sarakomesara@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:36:59 -0700
Subject: God be with you
Dear Friend
I am very sorry to bother you with my plight. Please know that it's not
by mistake I am contacting you but by the special grace of God.
After searching for someone I can lay my plight to, I’ve finally come
with you after prayers to God. My name is SARA KOME from Liberia.
I am 19. My father and I escaped from our country at the heat of the
civil war after loosing my mother and two of my senior sisters in
the war. They were raped and shot.
My father established his cocoa business in Kumasi, Ghana. He was in
ACCRA, to negotiate for the purchase a field when he was involved in an
auto crash. Before the unfortunate sudden death, my father called me to
his side and told me he have a total sum of 8.45 million dollars
deposited in a bank here in Accra.
He said he used me his only surviving child as his next of kin to the
deposite and incase he
fails to make it that I should take care of myself and get someone to
help invest the money for me. I have all the papers with me here.
I have confirm from the bank all the papers he gave me on the deposit.
I asked them to give me the money but they showed me the paper my dad
signed with them that I must be 25 years old before they can hand over
the money to me personally.
They said I should send them my birth certificate which I did and they
told me that am still under the age my dad signed with them.
They told me that my dad made a provision that my guardian can manage
the money on my behalf. Please this is where I need you pleased. I am
suffering here without money and since he died, I have not gone to school
again while there is money lying in there.
I have tried to locate any of my family but all to no avail and this is
why I have decided to get one for my self to assist me in getting the
money out.
I will do all you want from me provided it’s within my reach and the
will of God.
I trust you because I trust God never to lead me astray. Please help
me.
I have just told them that my guardian will contact them because I
don’t want them to take advantage of me that i have no guardian.
I want you to stand for me as my guardian and contact the bank. Tell
them you are my guardian and because of the crisis here, you want me to
be with you where you can better take care of me. Tell them to transfer
the money to you immediately. Please help save my life please. I have
no more money here and feeding is a big problem to me now. Please I
trust you because I trust God. Again, As soon as the money has been
transfered, to assist me with a letter of invitation that will make me get a
visa to your country for residence inorder for me to continue my
education and to invest the fund in a viable
business there.
This money can take care of me there without any problem and please I
need you to manage the fund for me, as this is my last hope in life. I
am ready to do anything you want provided you help me.
You can Have 20 percent of the money if you help me. If this is
acceptable to you, send me a mail through my e-mail account so that I can know
you more.
Please send me your photo and your telephone number please.
God Bless you. Yours, Sincerely
Sara Kome.
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