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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: Letter from Penda Oscar <ppendal1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:24:37 +0000
Subject: Good morning
Hi dear. Please i wish not to hurt you with my mail to you , Honestly it's =
due to the character behaviour of my Uncle called Alex ,He threaten me since =
my father is dead , upon he claim some most of my father properties , =
Thinking that i am too young to ask him about it , He said that so far i am a =
girl that i have no right to my father properties but near neighbours advise =
me not to challenge to him yet , that i should seek advise from Lawyer to =
stop his actions.
But now the most important reason that makes me to contact you is this , i =
need your help and advice, There was money my father has in a well known Bank =
outside my country , He deposited this money with my name as beneficiary and =
this money was in current united state dollars , the amount is Six million =
seven hundred thousand dollars .$6.700.000.00 ,
Dear Please know that any thing concern this money that this my Uncle Alex =
don,t know about it , because my father told me every thing about this money =
and warn me to keep every thing about this money secret ,This is why i don,t =
want any one here in Africa to know any of my movements till i move out of =
this country .
Dear Please i don,t know if it will be possible for you to come and see the =
documents by your self and you meet the bank face to face direct for the =
transfer of this money to your country, But if you don,t have chance to come =
,i can send it to you by email or by Fax so that you will see it and study it =
well , Then you stand as my father relationship or friend outside Africa and =
email the bank and advise them to transfer this money to your country , and =
you will send me an invitation Letter to come and meet you in your country =
,Then we discuss on what investment we should put the money into .
I don,t want to disclose much about this money because of security reasons =
and i don,t want my father brother Alex to know any of my movements for now =
till this money is transferred to your position . mean while i would like to =
discuss how much i will give you from this money before helping me , so that =
we agree on it first .
I'm waiting for your reply . send me your contacts information ,for calling =
you any time i want to speak with you .
Sincerely
Penda
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