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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: MR.JOHN COLE <mrjohncole102@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrjohncole78@yahoo.es
Date: 9 Nov 2007 07:14:15 -0000
Subject: your kind Attention is Needed
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
FROM MR. JOHN COLE
Centre 49-51 Business Park
Bankwood Way, Birstall, Bartley
West Yorkshire WF17 9TB
UNITED KINGDOM
TEL:+44-7031890684
TEL:+44-7031817817
your kind Attention: Belove
Could you please consider to help me to relocate this sum of Ten Million Dollars, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars(US$10.5m) To your country for establishing a medium size industry in your country. The said 10.5 Million Dollars was deposited in our security company by Mr.Andreas Schranner, a German citizen who died in a plane crash in 2000.We have tried to contact any of his immediate family to come forward for the claims but could not succeed.We discovered that the late German died along side with his wife and children who supposed to be his next of kin.
Click here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm)I will
give you all vital information concerning the money to you.You can come here in person or you can request the company to ships the funds to you in your country Diplomatically or transfer.
I am manager in this company, i will play a role to make sure that the 10.5 Million Dollars is released to you. As soon as i receive your first reply, i will also give you a draft application which you will fill and forward to our company.
Reply and let me know your full Name,Sex, Age ,Address, Occupation,Direct telephone and Fax if available. Please get back to me thought this e-mail address:{mrjohncole78@yahoo.es}
I await your urgently reply.
Mr.John Cole
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