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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: "sandra bamba" <sandra32bamba@latinmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:05:14 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Miss Sandra Bamba
From Miss Sandra Bamba
Ivory Coast West Africa
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Dearest .
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I am Miss Sandra Bamba from Ivory Coast and I am contacting you because=
I need your help in the management of a sum of money that my dead fath=
er left for me before he died.This money is USD 6.5 million American Do=
llars and the money is in a bank here in Abidjan the capital city.
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My father was a very rich cocoa farmer and he was poisoned by his busin=
ess colleagues and now I want you to stand as my guidian and appointed =
beneficiary and receive the money in your country since I am only 19 ye=
ars and without mother or father.
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Please I will like you to reply to this email so that I will tell you a=
ll the information so that this money will be transferred to you so tha=
t you will get me papers to travel to your country to continue my educa=
tion there.
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I am waiting for your urgent reply and i will call you as soon as i hea=
r from you. i will be sending to you a copy of my picture and passport =
so that you will know the person you are helping in my next mail.
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Thanks.
Miss Sandra Bamba
La temporada de huracanes y el terremoto de Peru, a un click http://www=
starmedia.com/noticias/especiales/desastresnaturales.html
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