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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: mrs_mary@hoymujer.com
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:44:12 +0400
Subject: From Mrs. Mary Clement,
From Mrs. Mary Clement,
Dear,
I am Mrs. Mary Clement from Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire. I am a widow
being,I lost my husband few years ago. My husband was a serving
director of the Cocoa exporting board until his death .He was
assassinated by the rebels following the political uprising here in
Cote d'Ivoire. Before his death he had an account in one the bank here
with a tune of $9.5M, which he told the bank, was for the importation
of cocoa processing machine. I want you to do me a favour to provide
to me your banking particulars to receive this money to a safe account
in your country or any safer place as the beneficiary.and i will give
you 15% out of the total sum as your own pesentage. I have plans to
invest this money into business in your country under you. This is my
reason of writing to you if you will be of interests to assist me, I
will be very grateful as you indicating your interests by replying
soonest with your private phone and fax. Reply me my private E-mail
address
mrs_mary@hoymujer.com [1]
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Mary clement and son Solomon
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This message sponsored by "TBC Bank [2]"
Links:
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[1] mailto:mrs_mary@hoymujer.com
[2] http://www.tbc.ge
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