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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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From: Richard Khaloun <khrichard@web.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:41:32 +0200
Subject: LETTER FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Richard Khaloun
Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire.
Hello,
Though we have not met before, I am desperate and therefore compelled to send you this email because I urgently need your help. My name is Richard Khaloun, originally from Sierra Leone but living in Cote d'Ivoire. My father and I escaped from our country at the heat of the civil war after losing my mother and my two elder brothers in the war.
As a result of the political instability in my country even after the war, my father who was involved in diamond business while in Sierra Leone stayed back in Abidjan and decided to establish business here because some of his former colleagues were after him.
He was in Bouakè, a northern city of Cote d'Ivoire to negotiate for the purchase of a cocoa plantation when he was shot and killed by the rebel troops fighting to take over the government of the country on the 22nd September 2002. The death of my father has now made me an orphan and thereby exposing me to danger. But before the unfortunate death, my late father deposited $5.8m with a bank here in Abidjan. Being the sole survivor of my father's children, I am the heir to this deposit.
Because of my young age and the insecurity of lives and property in this country, I cannot manage this money myself. Therefore, I wish to request your assistance to move this money into your country. I am afraid to involve anybody here because I suspect that the people who killed my father were after the money. I can only trust a foreigner at this moment because I believe the people who killed my father were people that knew him.
When you receive the money, you will assist me with a letter of invitation to enable me get a visa to your country, as I wish to continue my education there. Your assistance will also be needed to invest the fund in a profitable business in your country.
I am willing to give you ten percent of the money for your kind assistance. If this is acceptable to you, please reply immediately through my other email address, which I access often: khrichard12@yahoo.fr so we can discuss further.
God bless you, as I expect your favourable response.
Richard Khaloun.
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