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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: marina williams <marina_williams3@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: marina_williams100@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:28:02 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Miss Marina Williams
FROM MISS MARINA WILLIAMS
REPUBLIC OF COTE-D'IVOIRE
Avenu 15Rue 25 ABIDJAN
Dearest One,
I am Miss Marina Williams residence in Abidjan Cote d' voire , I m' 23 years of age and I love some hobbies like football, music, reading navels, watching TV and also outing. I'm the only daughter of late Mr. and Mrs. Lambert Williams. My father was the special adviser to the former president of
Liberia Mr. Charles Taylor. I and my father came down to reside in Abidjan ( Ivory Coast ) when our president went to exile and my father late die of heart attack.
Before his sudden death on 20th February 2005 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he called me on his bedside and told me about the sum of $6.5 million US Dollars he deposited with a Bank here in Abidjan and he used my name as his beloved daughter as the next of kin in depositing the fund.
And he advises me that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will invest the money.
I humbly seeking for your assistance, to help me transfer it to your country for investment. To serve as the guardian of the money and the investment since I am still a student and to make arrangement for me to come over to reside in your country to further my education as soon as the fund is in
your guide.
Thanks as you made up your mind to help an orphan like me.
Please, I urge you to make this transaction confidentiality within your heart for security purposes.
Yours ,
Miss Marina Williams
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