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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: "SILIFAT ALI FAYADH" <revphilips2005@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ojasilifat@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:32:19 +0000
Subject:
Hello,
Good day to you and your lovely family. I am Mrs. Silifat Ali-Fayadh, the
wife of Late Sheikh Dhari Ali Al-Fayadh (Prominent Iraqis House of Assembly
Member) who was Killed along with three of his bodyguards and my Son in a
suicide bomb attack in the neighborhood of Rashdiya Northern Baghdad.
Please view the news in CNN website below for detail Story of how I lost my
influential husband.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/28/iraq.main/
My late beloved husband deposited a huge amount with Diplomatic Vault for
safe keeping. I got your contact detail from a friend in the neighbour and
have so much in trust in you. All I need from you is an assistance to
transfer the fund that my late husband deposited with the diplomat vault to
your country for investment untill I regain my freedom. I will give you 20%
of the total sum but most of all is that I solicit your trust in this
transaction and will not want you to betray me, and I also want you to know
that is a legitimate transactiong and which is total risk free and we both
will benefit from it. Please all correspondence should be directed to my
private Email: erusilifat@yahoo.com as await your reply soon.
yours sincerely,
Mrs. Silifat Ali Fayadh
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