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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: "ABEL JOSEPH" <bodamind009@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:00:27 +0000
Subject: help needed from you!!!
Hello,
This is abel joseph cole, the only Son to the late Engr. George Enenmoh Tom.
Managing Director of ASCON Oil Nigeria. Who died on Saturday October 23rd
2005. Belleview airline plane crashed in Nigeria. May his soul rest in
perfect peace.
Please permit me your attention for a while and carefully go through this
mail. you see, the death of my dad took me unaware this is the greatest
shock in my life. The painful of it all is that, After the burial of my late
father, my uncles step in to claim our properties what a shame. they have
almost succeeds in claiming anything they can lay their hands. Right now,
one of them has moved to stay in our family home. It is unfortunate that
this kind of things happens everywhere in Africa.
The reason why I am contacting you is that, there is some certain deposit
which my late dad made with a security company with a foreign name amounting
to $120m(One hundred and twenty million united state dollars). I discovered
this document in my father’s portfolio last week when I entered his room. I
immediately moved away this document for the fear that if my uncle take a
notice of it, he may decides to seize it and claim the fund. I contacted the
security company to ascertain the truth of the deposit and fortunately, they
confirmed the existence of this fund.
Base on this, I decided to move to Ghana with all this documents for trace
of this deposit. I Went to the security company to put up the claim of the
fund, but they refused and requested that I should present a foreign
associate of my late dad to stand and sign the claim of these funds.
For this reason, I decided to make a plan with the help of an insider of the
security company to enable the claim of this fund since all the documents
for claim are in my position. I understand that this deposit was made in a
foreign name for security purpose since he was actively involved in
politics. Right now, I have succeeds in making the claim possible and
everything is perfectly arranged with the help of an insider of the security
company. Who has agreed to take $250,000,00 two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars after a successful claim of this funds. In this regards, he told me
to look for a reliable foreigner who will be capable of handling this
transaction to come and stand as the next of kin to claim these funds
through our perfected plans without any problem.
I decided to contact you hoping that with your reputation and that of your
company, that you are a honest and trust worthy person who will not betray
me. Because I am planning to move overseas and further my education and also
invest parts of the funds into funding charity organizations.
Please, I am requested that you should come and help me to stand the claim
this fund. Every arrangement has perfected and the possibility of the claim
is sure within 4 working days. therefore, you don’t have anything to worry
about. you can also contact me on phone
+2348039433731 for any question concerinng this transaction.
Therefore soon as I have your acceptance to help me stand the claim of this
fund, we shall discuss on your percentage being your reward for the
assistance. I will also give you the name and telephone number of the
insider of the security company to call him for details of the plans and
what you are going to do. Please I will really appreciate if you keep t this
information to yourself alone, and if you don’t accept this offer, I beg you
in the name of God Almighty do not disclose it to anyone for security
reason. Note that you are the only person who knows about this information.
I believe that you will not betray me thank you. May the Almighty God bless
you while waiting for your urgent response.
Sincerely yours,
abel joseph cole.
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