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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: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Zainab=20Aku?=" <xxholdings003@orangemail.es>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:51:04 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Dear Friend
Dear Friend,
This message to you is strictly confidential, with due respect. Sorry a=
t this
perceived confusion or stress you may have receiving this letter from m=
e, since
we have not known ourselves or met Previously. Despite that, I am const=
rained to
write you this letter because of the urgency it requires. As a matter o=
f fact, I
got your contact from this site and i checked you profile believing you=
will be
of a great assistance to my kids and me. My decision to consult you for=
a
partnership business of mutual benefit is indeed personal. I am not in =
doubt
that you can be trusted in financial related matters of this magnitude.=
=20
I am Dr (Mrs) Zainab .J.Aku, the widow of the former Nigeria Youth and =
Sports
Minister late Mark Ishaya Aku who died in a plane crash on the 4th of a=
pril,
2002 My kids and I are trapped in an obnoxious custom And traditional r=
ites of
my late husband's family. We have suffered maltreatment and untold hard=
ship in
the hands of my late husbands family, simply because I am not from the =
same
tribe with my late husband. His brothers have taken all that I suffered=
with my
husband to acquire including treasure, houses and his bank accounts clo=
sed by
them. I wanted to escape to the United States of America [USA} with my =
children
on exile, but again they conspired and stole my international passport =
and other
traveling document to further frustrate me Thank God, a week ago, I rec=
eived an
information via our family lawyer that my late husband deposited the su=
m of U.S
$18.5Million [Eightenn Million five hundren thousand United States Doll=
ars] in cash
with a security company, hence !=20
my late husband's brothers would not allow me to have any telephone con=
tact with
anybody.It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact s=
omeone, a
foreigner like you who can travel to the offshore payment center on our=
behalf
to help me receive/secure these funds, while we find a way of getting o=
ut of
Nigeria to meet with you in your country.=20
I have had several discussions with our family lawyer who has express
willingness to help me with the necessary documents for the claim of th=
e funds
from the Security company in London should I get an honest, competent a=
nd
capable foreigner who will not cheat my kids and me or even sit on the =
funds
after claiming it, to stand on our behalf to claim the funds. This is w=
hy I have
contacted you to help save my children and I from this obnoxious tax le=
veled on
us by my late husband's brothers by claiming these funds and investing =
it on our
behalf. But you would need to give me sufficient assurance that if you =
help me,
you would not divert the funds.=20
My children and I have resolved to give you 25% of the total sum. This =
is all
what my children and I have got to live on. Please, I have reposed my c=
onfidence
and trust in you and hope you will not disappoint me, please see the ne=
ws on
this websites to make you understand and believe me
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968300.stm. I look forward to =
your
urgent response.I expect to hear from you so that I can give you more d=
etails.=20
I await your response.=20
Best Regards=20
Dr (Mrs) Zainab .J. Aku=20
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