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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: ogodo family <gilcynth14@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <familyogodo@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:27:51 +0000
Subject: Dearest one
Dearest one,
Greetings in the name of God. we are Cynthia and Gilbert Ogodo from Sierra Leone.we are writing you from Rep of Cote d'Ivoire where we have been taking as refuge in the camp after the brutal war and murder of our parents by the rebels during the renewed fighting in our country. because of the war our late father sold his shipping company and took us to a nearby country cote d'Ivoire where he deposited (US$18,000,000.00) million (Eighteen Million United States Dollars) in his foreign account with one of the bank here in cote d'Ivoire.please, we have prayed before contacting you with the trust in God that you will be of help us.
We are seeking for your assistance to transfer this money to your country for a good investment project so that we can relocate to your country to further our study.Please help us secure our inheritance so that we can get out of this terrible situation.Please reply us urgent or you call us on this telephone number +225 0802 2382.May almighty God protect both of us.
yours truly, Cynthia and Gilbert Ogodo.
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