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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: dave igebe <drigebe04@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 05:21:34 +0100
Subject: ESTATE ACQUISITION


Hello Dear,

I am Rev. (Barr) Dave Igebe, a legal practitioner from
Adis Ababa(Ethiopia),a spiritual counsellor with MEN OF FAITH
INT. and Pro-Director of Rwanda Rehabilitation Project.
I have a colleague/client who was the former Director of environmental
matters in the defunct Government of assasined President Juvenal Habyarimana
of Rwanda.

My client was unjustly removed from office by succeeding President Bizimungu
for being a Tutsi origin; He was detained and brutalised for his historical
origin. You can visit this website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1288230.stm for further details.
My client( Mr Mebezu Osimatoye) is presently in Adis Ababa
and wants to acquire Estates or landed properties in your country.
Considering his very strategic and influential position, he would want
the transaction to be as strictly confidential as possible.
He further wants his identity to remain undisclosed at
least for now, untill the completion of the transaction to avoid traces by
the present Government of President Paul Kagame that laid embargo on fund
transfer from Rwanda more especially when it has to do with Tutsi origins.
Hence his
desire to have an overseas agent.

I am therefore making enquiries on his behalf if you would
agree to act as his oversea agent in order to actualize
this transaction.
The deal,in brief, is that the funds with which he intend
to carry out his proposed investments in your country is presently in a
coded account; he needs your assistance to transfer the funds to your
country in a convenient bank account that will be provided by you before he
can put the funds into use in your country. 15% of the total fund will be
yours and 5% will take care of any expenses that might be incured in the
process of succeeding the transfer.

I would like you to forward to me the following informations:
1. Your personal name or company name and address;
2. Your personal fax number;
3. Your personal telephone number for easy communication.
Please do communicate your acceptance of this proposal
for us to discuss in details the modalities for seeing this
transaction through.
Your quick response will be highly appreciated.
Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.

Yours faithfully,
Rev. (Barr) Dave Igebe
Pro-Director, Rwanda Rehabilitation Project
(www.rwandaproject.org <http://www.rwandaproject.org/>)

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