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Fraud email example:
From: <denisbayi12@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: denisbayi212@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:57:38 +0900 (JST)
Subject: REPLY / URGENT.
DEAR ONE,
MY NAME IS DENIS BAYI,NATIONALITY SIERRA LEONE. I AM 20 YEARS OLD I LOST MY FATHER,HE WAS A WELL KNOWN BUSINESS MAN HERE IN ABIDJAN COTE'DIVORE BEFORE HIS DEATH,HE WAS POISONED BY HIS BUSINESS ASSOCIATES DURING ONE OF THIER BUSINESS ASSOCIATES MEETING IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THIS COUNTRY.
RIGHT NOW I'M PRESENTLY IN ABIDJAN,COTE D'IVOIRE AS REFUGEE(ASYLUM SEEKERS) IT INTEREST ME TO WRITE YOU FROM MY HEART HOPING THAT YOU WILL NOT BETRAY ME.
MY FATHER DEPOSITED SOME HUGE SOME OF MONEY IN ONE OF THE BANKS HERE IN ABIDJAN WHEN HE WAS ALIFE AS THE PROFITS HE MADE FROM HIS BUSINESS, ACCORDING TO HIM HE SAID THAT IT WAS BECAUSE OF THIS MONEY THAT HE WAS POISONED.
INFACT IN A BREAF INTRODUTION ALL THE INFORMATION WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU WHEN I HEAR FROM YOU, (THE NAME OF THE BANK AND ALL THE DEPOSIT DOCUMENTS) AS WAS GIVEN TO ME BY MY FATHER ON HIS BED SIDE BEFORE HE GAVE UP.
HE TOLD ME TO ARRANGE WITH ANY GOD FEARING FOREIGNER WHO WILL HELP ME TO RECEIVE THIS MONEY IN HIS BANK ACCOUNT TO ENABLE ME GET OUT OF THIS COUNTRY BEFORE HIS ENEMIES KILL ME.
THIS MONEY TOTALING 3.5MILLION EUROS( THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDREND THOUSAND EUROS).HOWEVER, WHAT I NEEDED FROM YOU IS YOUR GOOD ASSISTANCE IN HELPING ME TRANSFERRING THE SAID SUM TO YOUR ACCOUNT SINCE I AM INEXPERIENCED IN THE WORLD OF BUSINESS.
TREAT ME LIKE YOUR OWN CHILD THAT'S THE REASON WHY I AM ASKING FOR YOUR SUPPORT.THIS COUNTRY IS NO LONGER CONDUSIVE FOR ME TO STAY.
BEST REGARDS
DENIS BAYI.
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