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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: "David Kofi" <davidkofi20032@gmail.com>
Reply-To: david_kofi_2006@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:22:59 +0100
Subject: Hello
Hello Dear,
I am David Kofi.From Sierra Leone, but now in Ghana and I am contacting you
because I need your help in the management of a sum of money that my dead
father left for me before he died.
This money is USD 32.5 million American Dollars and the money is in the
Global Security Company here in Accra, Ghana in Western Africa My father was
a very rich Gold farmer and he was poisoned by his business colleagues and
now I want you to stand as my guiding and appointed beneficiary as foreign
partner and receive the money and the Box of Gold in your country.
I am only 24 years and without mother and father. the information is that
the money and the Gold
will be transferred to you so that you will get me papers to travel to your
country to continue
my life there. and i will send you all the documentation that's backing the
claim so that
you can as well made the claim be for is too late.I am waiting for your
urgent
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