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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: "John Lugo" <waychezz@msn.com>
Reply-To: johnlugojr@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:37:47 +0000
Subject: APPEAL FOR YOUR GUARDIANSHIP.
John Lugo.
Plot 3006 Lord Castro
Avenue, Bakassi Island.
PMB 1160.
Tel: 00234-805-1215862
Email:johnlugojr@yahoo.com
Dear Friend,
Permit me to inform you of my present predicament and also insincere my
desire that you become my guardian. Though I Apologize for any
inconveniences it might course you, but I write You today based on the fact
that I 'm being left alone in this part Of the world and I Wouldn't
hesitate to confide in you that I am The only child of late Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Lugo.
My father was a very wealthy cocoa and Diamond merchant in Abidjan, the
economic capital of Ivory Coast; before his business associates
poisoned him, while I lost my mother when I was a baby and my Father took me
so special because I am motherless. Before the death Of my father on
02/03/2005 in a private hospital in Abidjan, he secretly called me on his
bedside and told me that he has the sum of (USD$ 36 MILLION) deposited
With my name as the beneficial Next of Kin in a financial Firm, He also
made me understand that it was because of This money he was poisoned
by his business associates while on a Business outing with them, so he
instructed me to look for a Foreigner who would be my guardian to help
me secure this fund and invest It
wisely in his country since I am still young to handle such money.
I write you this mail to seek for your guardianship for the purpose of
securing my life and my father’s wealth before the bad people that
killed my father would kill me. Now I am hiding in my late mother’s
Hometown in Bakassi Island. I humbly seek your assistance in the following
ways:
(A) To secure the money into your custody for investment and serve as
my guardian since I am only 19 years of age.
(B) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further
my education and to secure a resident permit for me in your country.
(C) For our communication, you should forward by email the Following:
a) Full name
b) Contact Address
c) Private Tel/Fax #
(D) Your compensation is 50% of the money and Investment because you
would be my guardian. Please Send Your Response To my personal Email:
johnlugojr@yahoo.com
Or Call: 00234-805-1215862, I am waiting anxiously to hear from you,
my best regards to you and your family.
Your Truly,
John Lugo.
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