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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: Bashiru Dada. <bashiru50@zwallet.com>
Reply-To: bashiru50@netscape.net
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:46:21 +0100
Subject: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY.
ATT. President,
I am Barrister Bashiru Dada. a Solicitor and Attorney to CHARLES
TAYLOR.I
have been mandated by Mr Charles Taylor Former Liberian warlord who is
presently on Asylum here in Nigeria.
I am contacting you because he has asked me to look for a very reliable
Foreigner to assist him in
repatriating the money he has stashed away in A bank overseas.
He left behind with the bank exactly thirteen
million US dollars(US$13.000,000). Since he has been granted Asylum by
the
Nigerian Government he has not been allowed to Travel out to any where
because the united nations has been trying to hold him for crimes
against
Humanity hence he is looking for a reliable Foreigner who will help him
out
by claiming the funds on his behalf with the information and Back-up
Documents of the funds.
He has asked me to offer you a total of 19% of the total sum and I am
going
to get the legal aspect of this transaction done and if you know you
are in
a better position to help please do not hesitate to
reach me on this e mail address so that i can give you the next step to
take
towards the actualisation of this mutually beneficial transaction.
Please reply to my private mail box (bashiru50@netscape.net)
I await your response as I ask you to keep this transaction
confidential
even if you are not in a
Position to be of assistance.
Barrister Bashiru Dada.
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