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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: arina88@walla.com (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 02:23:35 +0800
Subject: Regards
FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION
Dear Friend,
Due to my careful search for an honest, reliable and sincere business partner, i got your contact from the web and i ask if you can be trusted not to break an agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my mind to contact you and to offer you this proposal of mine of which my whole life depends on.
My name is Arina arifin, from indonesia, presently residing in the refugee camp here in malaysia,due to the tsunami that struck my country on the 26th of december 2004 as a result i lost my Parents and relatives.It is only me that survived it and i managed to make my way to near by country, malaysia where I am staying now as a refugee, in the camp . I Am 22years old.
Please listen to this, I have my late father's death certificate and the Secret Ref.Code with me which I will send to you latter, because when he was alive he deposited this amount of money in Finance Institute in Malaysia.which he used my name as the next of kin, the amount is US$4,200,000.00 (Four Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollars). I decided to move to Malaysia where i re-located under political asylum as a refugee to seek for foriegn patner overseas that will assist me to move this money
out of THE FINANCIAL HOUSE to your country as i have made up my mind to invest and live in your country.As an asylum seeker i am not allowed to operate any Bank Account within Malaysia.I have agreed to offer you 7% of the total sum for your assistance as
soon as the money get`s into your account while 5% will be mapped out for any expences that may be incurred in the course of this transaction both local and international.
I want truth and honest to be our watch word in this transaction and please treat this transaction with strictly confidential for the successful out come of it. All I want you to do is to furnish me with your personal information and phone numbers and also your private e-mail address for easy and urgent communication.
Note that this transaction is 100% Risk free and absolutely confidential. So I will like you to keep it to yourself and don't tell it to anyone for I am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people get to know about it.
But i must be sincere with you; my Late father was once a politician during his life time. He was a political adviser to the former President of Indonesia between 1994 to 1998.Hence, during his tenure he had many political opponents who are currently in Indonesian Present political term.
I don’t want to disclose my late father's treasure to any government or non governemental organisation,to avoid seizing or confistication of the money otherwise i would have gone to non governmental organisations to seek for assistance. So every efforts that i'm making to have this money into your account is strictly on confidentiallity.This is a confidential and private matter which must not be disclosed to any person until this money is successfully released into your account.
Email me with my alternate email address at,arina@inbox.com
Yours sincerely,
Arina,
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