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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: jeni Koulu <jeni.koulu@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: jenifer.koulu@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:09:11 +0100 (CET)
Subject: DEAREST ONE,
DEAREST ONE,
I KNOW THAT THIS MIGHT SOUND SO STRANGE TO YOU SINCE WE HAVE NOT MET BEFORE.
BUT LET ME QUICKLY INTRODUCE MYSELF, I AM MISS JENIFER KOULU
I AM 23 YEARS OLD MY FATHER WAS A GREAT POLITIANS AND AN OIL BARON BUT TODAY AS I AM WRITING TO YOU MY FATHER IS DEAD
BUT BEFORE HIS DEATH HE DEPOSITED THE SUM OF 5.5 MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS IN A SECURITY COMPANY HERE IN TOGO. HE DEPOSITED THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY AS FAMILY VALUEABLE PROPERTY IN A BOX. THE SECURITY COMPANY DOES NOT KNOW THAT IT CONTAINS MONEY.
SO I WANT A GOD FEARING PERSON THAT I CAN TRUST WHO WILL NOT BETRAY ME.I WANT YOU TO RETREIVE THIS BOX AND TAKEN TO YOUR COUNTRY FOR INVESTMENT. SO PLEASE GET BACK TO ME AND I WILL TELL YOU HOW WE CAN DO THINGS TOGETHER. PLS FOR YOUR INFORMETION YOU CAN STILL CONTANT ME ON THIS EMAIL ADDRESS
jenifer.koulu@yahoo.fr.
YOURS SINCERELY,
JENIFER
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