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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: GENERAL SIR RICHARD DANNATT <adimdu2003@live.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 01:14:42 -0400
Subject: TO: BENEFICIARY
TO: BENEFICIARY,
I am General Sir Richard Dannatt a British Army Commander and we are the financial investigation unit with the office of the United Nations, CIA and FBI. We picked up the file of Mrs.Caro Mark a foreigner of your country, who was the managing director of Oil Development Company plc in Africa, She died along with her husband and there three children in an underground bomb blast.
I have been given the mandate to contact you as the next of kin by the Secretary General of the United Nations and we have concluded your payment through the holding bank here and I want you to contact Rev.Father Augustine Mbanefo right away through the below information and you are also asked to stop any further communication with whosoever including your partner because we are undergoing an investigation and if anybody is found guilty or having hands in extorting money from you we will arrest him and hand him over to the Funds Investigation Unit.
Contacts the Financial Secretary :
Rev.Father Augustine Mbanefo with your full name, age, occupation, contact address and phone number to enable him start the process of releasing your payment amount of $18.5m from the bank.
Do as direct to receive your payment:-
Phone no: +2347082836553
Rev.Father's Email:
GENERAL SIR RICHARD DANNATT.
BRITISH ARMY COMMANDER
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