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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: "mastergumarrahim Gazeta.pl" <mastergumarrahim@gazeta.pl>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:17:21 +0000
Subject: please be fast with this mail
please be fast with this mail
Good Day
Att:
With due respect and to the glory of ALMIGHTY GOD whom we worship I call
upon you to assist and Please Permit me to inform you of my desire of going
into business relationship with you. I got your name and contact from ONE
CATALOG, from a reliable person that will help us to claim and have this
money transferred out of this country because of the on going war here. I
prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming
nature and there recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust person
that WE can do business with and by the recommendation, I must not hesitate
to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.
I am GUMAR Rahim the only son of late Chief. Godfrey Rahim,my late father
was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan but we are from Angola,my
younger sister and I are here for some time now because of this money left
behind by our late father. My father was poisoned to death by his business
associates on one of their outings on a business trip. And our mother die
years back after giving birth to my younger sister that later die few days
after birth. Before the death of my father in a private hospital , he
secretly called my younger sister and I on his bed side and told us that he
has the sum of Ten million,eight hundred thousand United State
Dollars(US$(10.8m)left in fixed /suspense account in one of the prime bank
here in
Abidjan,that he operate, that he used my name as his first and only son for
the next of Kin in depositing of the fund.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was
poisoned by his business associates. That we should seek for a foreign
partner in a country of our choice to transfer this money and use it for
investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management. We
are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To provide us with old or a fresh new bank account into which this money
would be transferred to.
(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund considering our age.
(3) To make arrangement for me and my sister to come over to your country to
further our education and to secure a resident permit in your country.
More over, dear I am willing to offer you 12.5% of the total sum as
compensation for your effort / input after the successful transfer of this
fund into your nominated account overseas.And 5.5% incase of any expenses
that may come up during the transferring of the money into your account.
Further more, you indicate your options towards assisting me as I believe
that this transaction would be concluded within seven (7) days you signify
interest to assist me.please you can call me now with
this number : +22507251215
Anticipating to hear from you today.
Thanks and GOD bless.
Best regards,
Gumar AND Sandra Rahim
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