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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: "LINDA MICHEAL" <lindamicheal30@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: lindamicheal22@myway.com
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:58:27 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend,
Dear Friend,
I greet you in the name of our lord . My name is
Mrs. Linda Micheal . 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 a loving,
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 be able 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
there fore 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 necessary detail for this
transfer.
However, I have decided to give you 20% of the
total money as a reward for
your
sincere assistance and the remaining 65% 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
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