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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: "Mrs.Sonia Benson" <femia4@voila.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: s_benson1@yahoo.com.sg
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:47:17 +0000
Subject: I need your quick reply pls.
Mrs.Sonia Benson.
C/o Eglise Ouganda (Catholic church )
Liberte Sicap 59,Dakar Senegal.
My dear,
I know this mail may come to you as a surprise.Nevertheless please don't be,I am Mrs.Sonia Benson,aged 59 years, the wife of Major Doncan Benson, Chief Security Officer and Aide-de-camp to the exiled president Charles Taylor of Liberia.
As a result of the on-going crisis in my country, I am saddled with problems of my ill-health(protracted diabetes and high blood pressure) which is currently of increase in the recent time but more importantly to me now is getting a trust worthy individual abroad to receive the sum of US$3 million and 3.65kg of Diamond on our behalf,this,I intend to invest in your country.
Due to the present crisis in my home city Monrovia, I managed to sneak away with my son and my only daughter out from Monrovia to Dakar-Senegal for our safety. We sneaked into Dakar-Senegal through the land boarder by the help of some government militia group who guarded our safe exit from Liberia.
After the killing of my husband by the rebels, we decided to come down here to Dakar senegal to take a temporal assylum and also to secure the this deposit as was made here by my late husband also, to further look for a trust worthy person abroad to receive these deposit upon it's release.My late husband made this deposit before he was eventually killed in my presence by the heartless rebels when they invaded our residence in Monrovia.
I feel confident therefore to introduce myself to you based on this problem and our present condition of stay here since all our foreign contacts and connections got lost as result of the crisis which lead to the killing of my late husband and the destruction of all his other properties and estates by the rebels.I am desperately in need to move and re-locate this deposit to your country for safe keeping as this is the only wealth remaining for the future survival and well being of me and my family out of all my late husbands estates/properties.
For your assistance, a negotiable percentage shall be discussed with you as I receive your positive response on this issue,our lives are in danger due to our present state of insecurity and condition of our stay here.I plead and look foward for your help.
Please endavour to email me back for further clarifications on this issue. God bless you as you respond to my plea for assistance.My telephone 00221 631 79 43 shall be open for your call any time but if I am available the time of your call, my son will respond to you accordingly.
Sincerely yours.
Mrs Sonia Benson.
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