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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: "Miss Safia saliu" <saliu2safia@yahoo.es> (may be fake)
Reply-To: safia2saliu@yahoo.es
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:31:25 +0400
Subject: From Miss.Safia saliu
Well, i don't really know you before, Let me describe myself to you, I am Miss Safia Saliu and my age is 26 years old, i am a local gold miner from west coast of sierra leone but currently I live in dubia due to the political crisis that occurred in my country.
I am a Moslem young girl looking for a reliable and trusted person that will wish to assist and introduce me on how to invest my funds in future. I want you to help me urgently, since the American old man that assisted me in moving the funds is asking me for marrage, and if I say no right now he might even try to report this to the government of dubia. i need a real person that have the fear of Almighty Allah on his mind to come to my assistance before this old man gets to understand that i can´t get married to him.
I am choosing you to assist me to transfer out my fund by standing as my foreign beneficiary to were my funds is deposited.the consignment of this fund was lifted from sierra leone to dubia by the America UN worker under the cover of UN and this 69years old America man made me to sign an agreement with him that i will not have access to this fund until it been transfer out of the country dubia for the sake of my safety.the total amount of this fund is USD$3.5(three Million five hundred thousand US Dollars)only.
I do hope you are a reliable,truthful and trusted person,that I wish to spend the rest of my life with as a wife or an assistant to advice me on how to invest my money. so that i can trust this fund to you,if your interest is noted,i will tell where my fund is deposited and how my fund will be transferred.
Yours in-need, Miss Safia saliu
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