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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: williams ibru <williams1x4@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:46:17 -0700
Subject: MY SINCERE APPRECIATION
Dear Friend,
Seasons greeting to you, i hope all is well together with your family,if so glory be to God almighty.
I am very happy to inform you that i have succeeded in transferring
those funds out of my Country (Nigeria) with the help of a new
partner from Osaka Japan,though it did not work as planned on your side
due to one reason or the other.
I appreciate greatly your understanding and concern,especially the
effort you made to assist me In fulfiment of that I made an
international Bank Draft cheque worth of $450,000.00 USD in your name
to compensate you for your past effort and attempt to assist me,
Now contact my account officer Mr.Christian Nwachukwu in my country.He will send you the Bank Draft immediately. Contact him on this E-mail: address
(chrisnwa2000@yahoo.fr)
I instructed him to release the draft to you
whenever you request for it. To help him identify you and confirm your
ownership of the money, please send him the following informations,
Your full name_____________
Your contact address______
Your phone no_____________
Your country name_________
Best Regards,
Senator Williams ibru
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