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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: "Gina Kent" <ginakent1010@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ginakent1011@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:11:09 -0800
Subject: Be Blessed
21/11/2005
Dear friend
I am Mrs. Comfort Gina Bruno , an English woman who is suffering from cancerous ailment. I am married to Sir Michael Welsh Bruno who also is an Englishman though dead now. My husband deals with precious stones for over two decade before the cold hand of death took him away on the 23rd of July 2003. Our marriage lasted for years without any fruit of the womb before his death after a protracted illness. My husband and I made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and the less-privileged individuals within the United Kingdom, Europe, North and South America, Africa, Middle East and the rest of the globe as he had passion for persons who can not help themselves due to physical disability or financial predicament. I can adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child of his own from this relationship, which never came.
Meanwhile, when my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of US$26 Million (Twenty Six Million United States Dollars) with an offshore Bank, which I will reveal to you later and presently this money is still with the Bank. Now, my Doctor told me that I have a limited or numbered days on earth and that my life span will not exceed 150days due to the cancerous problems I am suffering from. Though what bothers me most is the Heart problem that I have in addition to the cancer. With this hard reality that has me I have decided to donate this fund to a non governmental, or a non religious, and or a non profit organization or better still an individual, that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here in or will use this gift which comes from my husbands sweat to fund the upkeep of widows, widowers, orphans, destitute, the down-trodden, physically challenged children, barren-women and persons who prove to be genuinely handicap
ped.
I have decided to offer you 10% of the entire sum for your time, which you must spent in the course of transferring the money into any account nominated by you. I am doing this so that you will be provided for and to also do exactly with the money what my husband had advised/wished. I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives I know may not use the money as desired instead will take it as their own money. So my dear I do not want my husband’s hard earned money to be misused or invested into ill perceived ventures. I do not want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner, hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going.
My dear friend, I do not need any telephone communication in this regard due to my deteriorating health and because of the presence of my husband’s relatives around me in the hospital bed at this moment asking me some questions about my husband’s Will. I do not want them to know about this development with God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of my confidential lawyer who will work with you and bank where the funds are deposited. He will also issue you a Letter of Administration that will empower you as the original beneficiary/next of kin to my late husband, since your last name is the same with my late husband’s name, which is my mean reasons for contacting you; so to make the changes in your favour will be easier no matter your origin. Please assure me that you will distribute the funds and act just as I have stated herein, Hope to hear from you soon and God bless you.
Please reply this mail to: comfortj1010@yahoo.co.uk, or fax my private numbers:+44 709 287 3238
for details.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Gina Kent.
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