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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: "Hellin Danz" <helin286@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:58:36 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend,
Dear Friend,
Greetings in the name of God,Pls let this not sound strange
to you for
my only surviving lawyer who would have done this died early
this
year.i prayed and got your email id from your country's
chambers of
commerce which i have been with my late husband and liked to
visit once
more if God will in his infinite mercies.
I am Mrs. Hellin Danz,I am 51 years old,i am deaf and
suffering from
a long time cancer of the breast which also affected my
brain,from all
indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is
quite
obvious that, according to my doctors they have advised me
that i may
not live for the next two months,this is because the cancer
stage has
gotten to a very bad stage.
I was brought up from a motherless babies home, was married
to my late
husband for twenty years without a child.My husband died in
a fatal
motor accident.Before his death we were true Christians.
Since his
death I decided not to re-marry,I sold all my inherited
belongings and
deposited all the sum of $12.8million dollars with a
Security Company.
Presently, this money is still with them and the management
just wrote
me as the true owner to come forward to receive the money
for keeping
it so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to
somebody to
receive it on my behalf since I can not come over because of
my illness
or they get it confiscated.
Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital where I have
been
undergoing treatment for cancer of the lungs. I have since
lost my
ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only
a few
months to live.
It is my last wish to see that this money is invested to any
organization of your choice and distributed each year among
the charity organization,the poor and the motherless babies
home where i come from.I want you God fearing, to also use
this money to fund churches,orphanages and widows.
Please upon the receipt of this mail message, send to me the
following, to enable start the process of the fund into your
bank account:
1. Your full Name.
2. Your private Telephone and fax numbers.
3 Your Addresses.
I took this decision, before i rest in peace because my time
will soon
be up. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the
contact of
the Security Company.I will also issue you a letter of
authority that
will prove you as the new beneficiary of my fund. Please
assure me that
you will act accordingly as I stated herein. Hoping to hear
from you
soon. Waiting for your reply.
Yours in Christ,
Mrs. Hellin Danz.
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