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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: confidence_smit@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:35:20 +0800 (CST)
Subject: My dear good friend,
My dear good friend,
My name is Confidence Smith I am 20 years old girl. This is a complaining story, and I beg you to be patient and read through to the end. I was adopted in by Mr. Samuel Smith, A successful cocoa farmer in Ivory Coast. Mr Samuel Smith died as a result of the political crisis in Ivory Coast.
I loved Mr Samuel Smith for his kindness to me; for taking me out of the motherless baby home and make me his own daughter. He simply adopted me because he had no child on his own. I had no memory of my real parents.
Before the death of Mr Samuel on June 12 2006 he called me on the hospital bed and narrated to me that he has some dollars packed in two trunk box, the total amount is these box are 11.5 million usd.
He made me to understand that these boxes were deposited in a security company in the capital city Ivory Coast, Abidjan. He also gave me some Authentic Documents regarding the deposited boxes. These documents indicated that I am the beneficiary of the box. He also made me to understand that the officials of this company do not know the real content of these box; he deposited the box as our family valuables for security reasons. He warned me not to reveal this secret to anyone until I finish my education then I can claim the box and use the money to start living.
Two weeks ago, I received a letter from the private security company. The manager of this company in his letter apologized to me for waiting so long to contact me; information of my father's death simply did not reach him until a chance newspaper publication alerted him of the fact. I was then invited to come forward to their office to claim the box.
But this simple invitation is a very big problem to me because I don't have money to pay for the demurrage charges; Also I don't want to reveal the content of these box to the company because my late father warned me earlier. Even though I claim these box myself, I don't know how I can handle the money because the money is too big for me to handle. If I take the money to bank, especially now that t the country is in a political crisis they bank must question me.
I therefore decided to look for a foreign partner who will help me claim the box from the security company and arrange the shipment of the box to abroad in your country and at the same time assist me to come over to your country to stay with you and continue my education.
I desperately need your help! I need you to contact the Ivory Coast Security Company on my behalf抯 the "CONSIGNEE"; claim the box and arrange to ship the box to your country. Once the box is shipped to you and secured, you will send me ticket and visa to come and meet you in your country.
There is absolutely NO RISK to you; reach me for more introductions.
I am waiting for your response soon.
Sincerely
Miss Confidence Smith
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