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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: "ALEX BOATENG" <alex.boateng4@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:43:19 +0100
Subject: FROM ALEX BOATENG,PLEASE ASSIST ME.
2 of December,2006
DEAR FRIEND,
HOW ARE YOU TODAY, I HOPE ALL IS FINE. PLEASE PERMIT ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF
TO YOU.MY NAME IS ALEX BOATENG,I AM 20YEARS OF AGE AND I JUST FINISHED WITH
MY SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL WAITING FOR MY RESULTS SO THAT I COULD GO TO A
UNIVERSITY ABROAD TO CONTINUE WITH MY EDUCATION,WHEN THE CRISIS STARTED IN
MY COUNTRY WHICH LATER ENDED UP IN A WAR.DURING THIS TERRIBLE PERIOD ,A LOT
OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE KILLED BY THE REBELS,HOUSES WERE BURNED AND MOST
PEOPLE HAD TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES TO FIND A SAFER PLACE WHEN THE SITUATION WAS
GETTING HOTTER,MY FATHER BROUGHT ME HERE TO GHANA TO STAY WITH HIS OLD TIME
FRIEND WHO IS A FARMER,SO THAT HE COULD GO BACK TO DARFUR,SUDAN TO FINISH
UP,BECAUSE HE WAS A GENERAL IN THE SUDAN ARMY,THEN AFTER WHICH WE WILL
TRAVEL ABROAD.
ONE DAY.I WAS WITH THE FARMER IN HIS HOUSE WATCHING THE AFRICAN NEWS WHEN
SUDDENLY I HEARD MY FATHER'S NAME MENTIONED, HIS NAME WAS ANNOUNCED AS AMONG
THE FOUR PEOPLE THAT WAS SHOT BY THE REBELS ON THE RANDALL STREET IN
KHARTOUM , THE CAPITAL OF SUDAN . I COULD NOT BELIEVE, IT WAS LIKE A DREAM
NOT UNTIL HE WAS SHOWN ON THE SCREEN OF THE TELEVISION IT WAS SHOCKING TO
ME, BECAUSE MY FATHER WAS THE ONLY PERSON I HAD,I CRIED AND CRIED BUT THE
FARMER CONSOLED ME.
THE NEXT DAY HE CALLED ME AND TOLD ME THAT EVEN IF MY FATHER IS DEAD,HE HAS
LEFT A GOOD INHERITANCE FOR ME,SO HE WENT TO HIS ROOM AND BROUGHT OUT A
BROWN ENVELOP SEALED. I OPENED IT AND FOUND A LETTER AND A DOCUMENT, GOING
THROUGH THE LETTER AND THE DOCUMENT, I FOUND OUT THAT MY LATE FATHER
DEPOSITED 2 TRUNK BOXES CONTAINING TEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS EACH IN
THE 2 TRUNK BOXES WHICH WAS DEPOSITED IN A PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANY HERE IN
GHANA .
WHEN I READ THE DOCUMNET, MY FATHER LEFT AND INSTRUCTION THAT I SHOULD NOT
GO TO THE SECURITY COMPANY ALONE UNLESS I SEEK FOR A GOD FEARING FOREIGN
PARTNER IN A COUNTRY OF MY CHOICE WHO WILL COME DOWN AND MAKE THE CLAIM ON
MY BEHALF, AND USE IT FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES, SUCH AS REAL ESTATE
MANAGEMENT.I AM HONOURABLE SEEKING YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THE FOLLOWING WAY, TO
ACT AS MY FOREIGN PARTNER SO THAT THE 2 TRUNK BOXES CAN BE CLAIMED FROM THE
SECURITY COMPANY AND TRANSFERED TO YOUR COUNTRY.
PLEASE I WANT YOU TO KEEP THIS CONFIDENTIAL BECAUSE ACCORDING TO THE LETTER
MY FATHER WROTE BEFORE HE DIED THAT HE DID NOT TELL THE SECURITY COMPANY
THAT HE HAD MONEY IN THE 2 TRUNK BOXES AND ALL HE TOLD THEM HE HAD IN THE
BOXES WAS FAMILY VALUABLES ITEMS.
MOREOVER,I AM WILLING TO OFFER YOU 15% OF THE SUM AS COMPENSATION FOR EFFORT
INPUT AFTER THE SUCESSFUL CLAIM OF THIS 2 TRUNK BOXES TO YOUR COUNTRY,SO
THAT I CAN LEAVE AFRICA BECASUE I AM PRESENTLY SEEKING ASYLUM AT THE UNITED
NATIONS REFUGEE CAMP.
I WILL BE WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,YOU CAN ALSO GET BACK
TO ME THROUGH MY YAHOO MESSENGER EMAIL:alex.boateng7@yahoo.co.uk
THANKS AND GOD BLESS.
ALEX BOATENG.
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