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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: Barrister Charles John <officefile23@virgilio.it>
Reply-To: mrbenjaminesolomon01@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:20:43 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject:
CONTACT MY SECRETARY
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Originating-IP: 195.166.237.42
Dear Friend,
I am very happy to inform you about my success in
getting
that fund Transfer,I want you to contact my secretary on the
information below.
NAME;(WILLIAMCHU1)
Get in
touch with him on how
to send you the total sum of
(800,000.00) Eight
hundred thousand
dollars, which I kept for
your compensation.
Contact him on this
email:( WILLIAMCHU1@YAHOO.FR)
Regards,
Dr.Hill John
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