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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: "Peter Ado" <peterado22@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: peterado_ado@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 1980 01:40:04 -0800
Subject: urgent reply .
Dear/Sir/Madam.
I will like to relate to you, my heart desire for an assistance from you. My name Peter Ado , the only son of late Dr Andrew ADO. I am 22 years of age. My father was a very wealthy Gold dealer in Monrovia , the capital city of Liberia . My mother died in 1994 , and since then my father took me so special.My father died in a plane crash while trying to save the lives of the masses by transpoting food from a neighbouring country to monrovia.during the civil war in Liberia.his plane was shot on the air by the rebels,and he could not survive as the plane crash landed. Before his death, on the 6th of Febuary 2000, we were in Ghana on one of his business visits,that was when he told me that he has the sum of 15,000,000usd (Fifteen million dollars) as well as 100kgs of alluvial Gold dust, in the Skybell Security Company in Ghana, and as the only surviving son,i am the next of kin.it was after his death, the director of the security!
company called me to come and claim my father's wealth. I told him i would like to invest the money in a substancial business ,not in Ghana,but out side Africa.I also told him i do not want to stay in africa any longer because of thje war we experience every now and then. He advised me to seek for a foreigner in a country of my choice,who will assist me transfer the contents and invest it in a lucrative business on my behalf .since then i have been in the search of a reliable and trusthworthy person that will assist me in transferring the huge amount as well as the Gold dust out of the security company. I will like you to assist me by providing an account that will bear your name, where this money will be transfered to,also to help me look for a business that i can invest the proceeds in.nevertheless, help me secure a visa that will enable me come over to you,as soon as the money is being transfered to you. Sir, I am willing to offer you 20% o!
f the total money for your help. I so i believe you will assist me s
o that my dream of becoming great will come through. May God bless you and your family,Amen I am looking forward to hear from you.
Yours Faithfully,
PETER ADO
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