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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.JOY KOBE" <jkobe2006@msn.com>
Reply-To: joykobe22@3xl.net
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 03:24:39 +0000
Subject: dear one kindly help me.
dear one kindly help me.
ATTN: Dearly Beloved,
This communication to you is strictly
confidential, with due respect. Sorry at this perceived confusion or
stress you may have receiving this letter from me, Since we have not
known ourselves or met previously.
Despite that, I am constrained to write you this letter because of the
urgency of it.By way of self introduction, I am Mrs. Mary Kobe, the wife
of late Brigadier - Gen.Maxwell Kobe former ECOMOG ARMY COMMANDER
[West African peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone] who died in the Sierra
Leone civil disturbance [War]. My three daughters and I are trapped in o
bnoxious custom and traditional norms.
We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the hands of my late
husband's family, simply because I did not bear a male child [heir apparent]
for my late husband. By tradition, all that my late husband had! , [wealth]
belongs to his brothers/family. And myself is to be remarried by his
immediate
younger brother which I vehemently refused. They have taken all that I
suffered with my husband to acquire including treasures, houses and
his bank particular seized 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.
Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code [KTC} from a security &
Finance Company abroad, that my late husband maintains a saftey eposit
box of high value with this company and i am the next of kin sotherefore i
should make necessary arrangements to come for the claim of the box .
It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact someone,
a foreigner like you to help me receive/secure the consignment while we i
and my children find a way o! f getting out to meet with you in your
country.
The consignment was kept on an "OPEN BENEFICIARY MANDATE" with
the Security Company to avoid detection, seizure or diversion.
I have had several telephone discussions with the Assistant Director of the
security company, who has expressed willingness to help me on meeting
the company's demands. This is why I have contacted you to help save my
children and I, receive/secure the safety box on our behalf.
But, you would need to give me sufficient assurance that if you help me, you
would not divert its contents which i will reveal to you as this is an
information
known only to me and no one else.
My children and I have resolved to give you a certain percentage for your
honest assistance to us and i shall open up to you as i have to be careful
for this is the only way i and my children stand to live better lives.
This is all my children and I have got to live on.
Please! , I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not
disappoint me. I look forward to your urgent response, including your
private phone / mobile No and also your fax no for easier communication.
NB: The secret codes (e.g Pin No., Secret Access Code) for the box are
safely kept with me which I will give you as soon as you express desire
to help me.
Stay blessed.
MRS. JOY KOBE.
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