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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: williams45@freenet.de
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:02:31 +0100
Subject: Hello
Hello,
I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your
Confirmable Bank Draft of $155Million United States Dollars, but I did
not hear from you since that time. Then I went to the bank to confirm if
the draft has expired or getting near to expire and Mr. Collins Ben the
Director Bank of Africa told me that before the draft will get to your
hand that it will expire.
So I told him to cash the $155Million USD
UNITED STATES DOLLARS to cash
payment to avoid losing this funds under
expiration as I will be out out of the country for a 6 Months Course and
I will not come back till end of July 2008.
The only money you will send
to the Courier Company to deliver your Consignment
direct to your postal
Address in your country is ($155.00 USD) One Hundred & Fifty_five United
States Dollars only being Security Keeping Fee of the CourierCompany so
far.Again, don\'t be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except
$155.00 US Dollars. I would have paid that but they said no because they
don\'t know when you will contact them and in case of demurrage.
Contact
Person: Mr.Collins Ben Email
Address:(infofedexcourierservice@yahoo.fr)
Tel/FAX+229 93132372
:
Note
this. The FEDEX COURIER SERVICE company don\'t know the contents of the
Box. I registered it as a Gift item and Personal belongs. They did not
know the contents was money. this is to avoid them delaying with the
BOX.
Don?t let them know that box contents money ok. I am waiting for
your urgent response.
Yours Faithfully,
Please, Send them your
contacts information to able them locate you immediately they arrived in
your country with your BOX .This is what they need from you.
1.YOUR
FULL NAME
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS.
3.YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE
NUMBER.
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE.
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE Mr
Willias
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