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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: "Sylvia Okafor" <sylviaokafor@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: sylviaokafor@mail.ru
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:19:48 -0600
Subject: VERY URGENT..........PLS REPLY
Dear Sir/Madam,
I greet you in the name of our lord. My name is Mrs. Sylvia 0kafor. I am
a widow and a mother of Two all girls. I know you will see my letter to
you as an embarrassment considering the fact that we do not know ourselves.
I
plead with you to be patient with me I feel very pleased to contact you for
some assistance and business relationship. I live in Nigeria with my
children. My late husband was aloving, caring and hardworking businessman
who died unfortunately In a ghastly auto crash.
Before the sudden death of my beloved husband, and father of my
daughters, my late husband intended to establish a business in the united
states
of America with the sum of $30 million united states dollars, but
unfortunately he died before
this proposed venture.
Following his death, his family members insisted that
I am not entitled to his property (Assets and money) since I am a woman and
my offspring's all girls as I do not have a male child for my husband.
Well, according to some barbaric traditional laws here in Nigeria (Africa)
which doesn't permit a woman to inherit a man's property, as they are
expected by tradition to take over the management of his business and other
properties including myself who automatically becomes a wife to one of his
immediate brothers. Unfortunately to this wicked family members, the $
30million
united states dollars which my late husband intended to use in establishing
a
business in the United States was deposited in a bank account unknown
to his family. I and the lawyer is the only one aware of this money, so I
have
discussed this matter with a staff of the bank that i want this money
personally so that I will beable to take care of my children's educational
needs since my husband's family members vehemently opposed the furtherance
of their education.
According to the staff of the bank, the best way to secure this money is to
transfer
this money to a bank account outside Nigeria For safe-keeping, later it will
be used for business establishment subject to the Advise of whosoever
finally assists us.
At this juncture, I therefore ask for your sincere assistance in providing
us with your bank details and the enablement to facilitate the remittance of
this fund
into your nominated account.
As soon as I get your positive response, I shall provide you with all
the necessarydetail for this transfer. However, I have decided to to give
you 30% of
the total money as a reward for your sincere assistance and the remaining
70% of the money will be for my investment as I will want to keep aglow my
late
husbands dream of investing in real estate.
To be able to help me, kindly send through my email, your personal details
including your contact information for easy communication.
Thanking you for your anticipated response.
Mrs.Sylvia Okafor.
Pls Reply To: sylviaokafor@mail.ru
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