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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: "janan harb" <janan_harb4@msn.com>
Reply-To: janan_harb@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:21:49 +0000
Subject: Dear Beloved One
AM CONTACTING YOU WITH ALL DUE RESPECT SIR AND NEVER HAVE YOU
ENTERTAINED ANY FEAR IN THIS TRANSACTION, FOR THIS IS REAL AND GENUINE.
ALL I NEED IS HONESTY AND YOUR CAPABILITY TO HANDLE THIS PROJECT ON MY
FAMILY BEHALF.
Please kindly take a look at these web pages:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/14/nfahd14.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/06/14/ixhome.html
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0506/050615-fahd-divorce.html
Dear Beloved One,
Your first reaction to this mail will be total rejection, scare and may
be Unbelief, owing largely to the atrocities people commit these days
on the Internet. But this mail comes from a devastated, sorrowful and
emotional Laddered soul that needs compassion from a kind and good
spirited person to Wipe away my tears, perhaps when I am gone beyond this
sinful
world by Investing jointly as partners in your country.
I am Mrs.Janan Harb I am the above named person. I was once married to
King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz The King of the Kingdom Of new Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia and the 11th son of the founder of the Saudi kingdom, king Ibn
Saud.Who has been on throne since 1982 till after his death On the morning
of 1st August, 2005. Though he has been of and on the hospital since after
his
stroke in the year 1995 and was hospitalized twice in MAY 1999.
Before The divorce, He made me to understand that he deposited the sum
of (Twenty Seven Million British Pounds ) with a finance house in
Oversea. Please Sir, I Hereby request for your urgent assistance to
help me in this regards, investing the Fund as a partnership investment with
your company or any investment that Both of us will benefit from it.
Presently, this money is still under the safe keeping of the finance
House In Oversea. I don't want any of husbands relatives to know about
this Development nor the Government of Saudi Arabia. Please tell me in
confidence, can you handle it? Can you invest? This huge amount of
money successfully on behalf of my two daughters and me? Have you ever
handle
such amount of money before? How old are you?
Please advise most Urgently.
With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply, I
will Furnish you with the information of my personal attorney who i
have entrusted every details regarding this transaction and he will
also issue you a power of attorney on this regards, making
you the Original- beneficiary of this fund with other related
documents.
Please reply through my personal email
Yours in Sincerely,
Mrs. Janan Harb.
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