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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: "KEVIN JONES" <kevin_jones323@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kevinadamsjones@yahoo.com.au
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:53:42 -0800
Subject: ATTENTION NEEDED SO URGENT
DEAR MY GOOD FRIAND
My name is kelvin junes Adams; I am from Ghana.
It is with trust and confidence that I make this urgent business proposal
to you
Some couple, of years ago, I was the President of Ghana Petroleum
Cooperation. In 1999, a Briton called Mr. Burton who has been my good
friend since 1995 came to Accra Ghana from
London to buy Crude oil as he has been doing in the past.
Whenever he comes, he always come with Millions of Dollars to purchase Crude
Oil through
Bunkering (illegal purchasewithoutAuthorized license) as Federal Government
of Ghana does not encourage illegal exportation of Crude Oil/ Petroleum
products, Mr. Burton was
arrested when three of his company vessels were caught by the Ghana Navy in
the high sea illegally loaded with bulk of Crude Oil for eventual
exportation abroad. To this end, all the three vessels were confiscated by
the Federal Government of Ghana.
In Accra Ghana, illegal Oil Bunkering (illegal lifting of Crude Oil) is an
economic sabotage and it ttracts life imprisonment as a penalty for a
defaulter. For the fear of being jailed here, Mr. Burton ran away from Accra
Ghana the very day I secured his release from the detention without even
dropping a word for me. Due to my inability to produce Mr. Burton as I
signed in the bail warrant, the Federal Government got me arrested and kept
me under house arrest since the year 2003, pending when I will produce Mr.
Burton based on what I signed in his Bail bond.
Since 1999, when Mr. Burton disappeared from Accra, he has made no phone
call to me neither, did he write me nor my lawyer who made his bail
possible. I have made several efforts to reach him, but the only information
I got from somebody who claim to be the new occupant of his house in
London was that Mr. Burton, his wife and his only son died in motor accident
since 1999 and the man warned me not to call the number again.
In the last visit of Mr. Burton, he came with the sum of $22.2 Million
Dollars (twenty-two Million Two Hundred Thousand United State Dollars Cash)
which as usual I helped him to deposit in a security and finance company
here, which I introduced to him in 1995. Since Mr. Burton ran away from
Accra, I have been spending the sum of $500 Dollars every month paying
demurrage to the security and finance company where the cash is presently
deposited as a Gold dust in disguise, since the security and finance company
does not know that the real contents of the box is money.
Since Mr. Burton is dead and has no next of kin, I have made up my mind to
invest this money abroad preferably in your country or any other country of
your choice. It will be highly appreciated if you can assist me to achieve
my aims because due to restriction placed on my movement by the
government, I cannot operate a foreign account and cannot travel out of my
country for evacuation and investment of the money. I need you as a partner
whom I can entrust and channel this money on your platform in your country,
I will arrange a meeting between you and my family concerning the safety of
the transaction and to stabilize mutual understanding in both parties.
Please be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free and must be
treated with utmost confidentiality, I have mapped out 35% of the total
amount for your kind assistance while the balance of 65% shall be invested
in a joint business venture with you when I regain my freedom from
Government. Hopping to hear from you urgently,
Best Regards,
junes Adams
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