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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: barrwilliam brandon002 <barrwilliam_brandon002@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:36:24 +0100
Subject: Contact my secretary for your compensation,
Dear Friend,
I am happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the co- operation of a new partner from switzerland. Presently I'm in switzerland for investment projects with my own share . meanwhile,I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it later failed us some how. Contact my secretary,Mr Maurice Djanny through his email address(maurice_djanny@yahoo.fr) ask him to send you the total $950,000.00 which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so feel alright and get in touched with my secretary and tell him where to send the amount to you if you can not come down to benin republic. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the tremendious atmospheric nature of success together after all. For this moment, I am very busy here in switzerland because of the investment projects which I and the new partner are having at hand, finally, I had forwarded instruction to My secretary on your behalf to receive the money, so you should to get in touch with Mr Maurice he will send the amount to you as get in touch with him
Yours sincerelyBarr William Brandon.
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