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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: samuel kofi <ms_kofi34@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <samuel_kofi2007@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:14:01 +0000
Subject: PLEASE INTERPRET CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO ME IS URGENT,
Attn: I got your contact during my search for a reliable, honest and a trust worthy person to entrust this huge transfer project with. My name is Mr. Samuel Kofi manager of the financial institution here in Ghana. I am a Ghanaian married with four kids. I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of $ 7,597.864.00 Million United States dollars only, This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the manager made as profit during the 2005 financial year. I have already submitted annual report for that year to my head office here in Accra as I have watched with keen interest as they will never know of this excess. I have since, placed this amount of $ 7,597.864.00Million United States dollars on an Escrow Coded account without abeneficiary (anonymous) to avoid trace. As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money due to civil service code which forbids its civil servants from owing or operating foreign currency account coupled with the fact that the fund is huge thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account on my behalf. I intend to part 30% of this fund to you while 70% shall be for me. I do need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this. It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand as the original depositor of this fund so that the fund can be transferred to your account. If you accept this offer, Please get back to me. But if you're notinterested in this please do not reply.
Regards Mr. Samuel Kofi
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