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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: "Lila Raji" <lilaraji@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: rajilila@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:45:11 +0000
Subject: send reply and all correspondence

Please use this money for the less privileged and Humanity.

Greetings to you and your family in the name of God. In my search for a reliable and God

fearing person and having gotten your contact through prayers and painstaking efforts I have

decided to seek your help in carrying out my last wishes. My name is Mrs.Lila Raji. I'm a 36

years old woman and from Iraq. I was a merchant and owned two business in Dubai. I was also

married to a Iraq who died along with my two children.

My husband and two children died in a bomb attack and i manage to survive years ago. Before

this happened, my business and concern for making money was all I live for. I never really

cared about other values in life. But since the loss of my family, I have found a new desire

to assist helpless families. I have been helping orphans in orphanage/motherless homes. I

have also donated some money for humanitarian needs.

I once asked members of my family to close one of my accounts and donate the money, which I

have there to charity organization in Bulgaria, they refused and kept the money to

themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I

have left for them. The last of my money which is the huge cash deposit that I have with

Financial Firm Abroad .


Presently, I'm in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for Burns. I have since

lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only few months to live. It

is my last wish to see this money distributed to victims of the fire outbreak in Australia

and other charity organization. Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my

wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony entrusting this huge responsibility to

any of them.

Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit and distributes it

accordingly. Use your judgment to distribute the money and keep 20% of it to yourself. Feel

free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any cost you incure during the

process of collecting and distributing the money. If you are willing to help, please reply

as soon as possible. May God bless you and your family.


Please, send reply and all correspondences to me.

Regards,
Lila Raji

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