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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: roy brown <roybrown000010@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: roybrown0009@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 06:43:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: COMPENSATION
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: roybrown000010@yahoo.com
Dear friend
I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting
those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner
from London l.presently in london for investment projects with my own share
of the total sum. meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and
attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.
Now contact my secretary,his name is Mr.roy brown
on roybrown0009@yahoo.com ask him to send you the total $1.200.000.00 which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so feel free and get in touched
with my secretary roy and instruct him where to send the amount to you.
Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. in the moment, i am very bussy here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Mr roy brown he will send the amount to you without any delay.NOTE;;the money is in a nigerian/swiss international payable bank draft .
Best Regards
roy brown.
- roy brown
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