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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: Vera Edosan <ver_aed3336@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: v.ed79@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:23:28 +0100 (BST)
Subject: From Ms Vera Edosan
Dear Beloved,
Well I know that you will face surprise to have received this message from me as an introductory message. i got your contact through the West Africa chambers of commerce and industry foreign affairs division.
My name is Ms. Vera Edosan the daughter of the late Mr Mustafa Edosan I am 21years my late father was a gold and cocoa dealer based in West Africa region Accra Ghana and Abidjan-cote d? ivoire, etc. he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips, I am a Sierra Leonean by nationality before my father died in a private hospital here in Abidjan- cote d? ivoire, he secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has some sum of money stipulated on a trunk box ?.six million five hundred thousand United States Dollars (us$6.500 Million USD) in cash, he has deposited the trunk box in one of the leading security company in this country but the contents of the box was declared to the authority of the security as family valuable property for the safety of the money.
If this interests you i am willing to offer you 15% from the money for your kind and sincere assistance to conclusion of this project, also 5% will be set aside to offset expenses that you may occur during the course of the transaction.
i await your urgent treatment to this matter as a foreign partner to my best wishes in advance for your acknowledge of this letter.
your`s sincerely,
Ms Vera Edosan
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