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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: "katrina valdez" <katrina_70valdez@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: katrina_valdez1111@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:31:35 +0000
Subject: Good Day
Good Day
I know you may be surprise in getting this message from me due to the fact
that you don’t know me before. I decided to contact you with the hope to get
a favourable assistance. My name is Madame VALDEZ KATRINA from Philippines
nationality.
I lost my husband few years back in a ghastly motor accident.Before his
death, he deals on cocoa and coffee business. I inherited the sum of US$ 6.5
Million from him. Presently, I have a big problem with my husband’s brothers
because they wanted to confiscate all the wealth and landed properties he
left behind.
The above sum was the only thing I was able to secure among all his
properties. Because of their pressure and fear that they might discover the
existence of this fund, I quickly put the funds in a box coded and arranged
with some diplomatic agents who helped me to send it to Africa, in a
security and finance company in Abidjan, Cote D’ivoire where my late husband
goes to do his coffee and Cocoa business.
For security reasons, the box was declared as containing family valuables.
In this case, the company in Africa does not knothat the exact content of
the box was money. I am sending you this message because I don’t have any
trust on my husband’s brothers and the country where the fund is deposited
in Africa is presently in civil war.
This is giving me sleepless nights. I am therefore soliciting for your
assistance to help me secure the consignment to your country so that the
funds can be invested promptly. If you agree to help me, we shall negotiate
on what will be your compensation for this noble assistance.
After the death of my husband, his brothers started treating me like a
prisoner. They forced me to release all his banks information and other
important documents.
They did not stop there; they are monitoring my movements till today to
extent that I can not go out freely nor answer or make telephone calls. They
can only give me foods and shelter and nothing else.
I can understand that with such treatment, their plan is to do away with my
life so that they can feel comfortable with what they snatched from me. It
is because of this problem that I decided to contact you for a help to
rescue me from this ugly situation before I die here.
Apart from this money in Africa, I don’t have any other thing in my life and
the company charges US$30.00 per a day for safeguarding the consignment till
today. My financial situation is completely zero.
Upon receipt of your response, I will send you the contact of the company in
Africa so that you can open up communications with them as my foreign
partner who wants to help me secure the consignment to your country.You will
ask them to send the consignment to directly to your country.
When this is successfully done and the funds under your custody, I will
secretly arrange my escape from here to join you so that we can work on the
funds investment.I am counting on you to save my life because I have a very
serious problem now.
Sincerely yours,
Madame VALDEZ KATRINA.
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