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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <anna.wayne@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:48:31 +0000
Subject: My Beloved Friend
My Beloved Friend Let me first of all inform you, I got your email address from a mail Directory and i was motivated to mail you for a Godly assistance. Please I humbly request for your permission to go ahead so as to ensure this contact does not offend you in any way.
Firstly, I am Mrs. Anna Wayne from Estonia, married to Dr. Harry Wayne who worked with Texaco Oil Company in United Kingdom before he died in a ghastly motor accident on his way to a Board meeting. We were married but without a single child. Since his death I decided not to re-marry and presently I am 69 Years old. When my late husband was Alive he deposited the sum of $16.5M. (Sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars) with a Bank. Presently this money is still with the Bank and the management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the money or rather Issue a letter of authority to somebody to receive the money on my behalf. I cannot do this myself because I am presently in a hospital where I have being undergoing treatment for Cancer of the lungs, I have being in this sickness for the past four years and I have since lost my ability to talk. My doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live so I think the best thing to do is to use the money for some charity project.I intended using my late husband family for this project, but the truth is that they are not inclined in helping the poor ones and I know they will spend this money on themselves so I decided to look for a trustworthy person or family that I can present as the beneficiary of my late Husband’s fund deposited with the bank so that the person can get the money and utilize 90% of this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows around the world.
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact details of the Bank. I will also issue you a letter of authority which will prove that I really sent you to take possession of my husband’s fund.
Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated here in and Keep this contact confidential till such a time this funds get to your Custody. This is to ensure that nothing jeopardizes this project which has always being my heart desire to help the poor ones. I await your urgent reply. Regards, Mrs. Anna Wayne.
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