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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: "Revd. Fr.Fredrick Nelson" <nelsonfred@mixmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:43:12 +0100
Subject: Your Awaiting Payment ...
OFFICE OF REVD.FR FREDRICK NELSON
DIRECTOR SPECIAL DUTIES, UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICE
DAKAR, SENEGAL.
TEL: + 221 5545692
EMAIL:fr.frednelson@katamail.com
Dear Friend.
I am Revd. Fr.Fredrick Nelson, a senior staff with
the World Bank fact finding & special duties office.
I am writing you this letter based on the fact that
cool penny is better than millions of dollars means
it's better for one to live and die poor honest man
than a rich dishonest one.
I and the Chief security officer (CSO) of this
organization have arranged with an officer in the
computer section Engineer Peter Cliff to bring out
part of your total pending payment with reference
number (LM-05-371) amounting to US$10 million. Why we
did this is because according to information gathered
from the banks security computer, you have been
waiting for a long time to receive this payment
without success. As I found out that you have almost
met all the statutory requirements in respect of your
pending payment. The problem we feel you are having
is that of interest groups. A lot of people are
interested in your payment and those people are
merely doing paper works with you and that explains
why you receive different kinds of untrue email and
phone messages from different people everyday. For
security reasons you do not have to tell anybody that
your have your payment on the way until the payment
gets to you.
The said payment is been arranged in a security-proof
box weighing 75kg. In order to get this box shipped
to you I and the (CSO) Yesterday went to this four
courier companies Dhl, Ems, FedEx and Ups to make
arrangements on how to get the box shipped to you by
courier, but to no avail the above courier companies
all made us to understand that they will have to open
the box for inspection by the customs before
shipment. This is something we want to avoid because
this box is been padded with synthetic nylon and to
open it you will have to cut the pad before you will
meet the button that you will press to open the dial
code-lock. There is no way you can open the box and
be able to close it again because it was padded with
machine. We told the courier services that the box
contained film materials and when open will spoil the
materials. N B: we did not declare money because
courier does not carry money.
Today a friend of mine who is diplomat disclosed to
me that there is a security courier service company
that is specialized in sending diplomatic materials
and information from one country to another, which
also has diplomatic immunity and consignment such as
this, cannot be checked by any customs anywhere in
the world. I have therefore met the official of the
security courier service and concluded shipping
arrangement with them, which they will commence as
soon as I have your go ahead order. The diplomat who
will be bring in this consignment to you is an expert
and has been in this line of work for many years now
so we have Nothing to worry about. After all
arrangements we have concluded that you must donate
Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars
(US$500,000.00) to any charity organization I
designate as soon as you receive your money. To this
effect, you will send to us a promissory note for the
donation along with your address where you will like
the box to be delivered by courier. Please maintain
topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if
found out that we are using this way to help you. You
are advised not to inform anyone about this until you
received your money. Am helping you on this because
something in me is tells me that you are an honest
person. When you conclude this and you send our
promise, we will help to ship the final part of your
money to you.
May God be with you as i wait for your response
through this Email:fr.frednelson@katamail.com . Feel free to call
me if you will like us to discuses more on this TEL:
+ 221 5545692.
Yours Faithfully
Revd. Fr.Fredrick Nelson
Director, Special Duties. UNO/WBF
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