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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: amr.wilson_0001@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:14:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Can I Completely Trust You???
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: amr.wilson_0001@yahoo.com
- From: Wilson Asamoah International commercial bank Ghana Ring Road Accra Ghana, Attn, It is my pleasure to seek for your assistance,this proposal is real and I want you to consider it very important. This is an opportunity I cannot afford to loose in life. I am Mr. Wilson Asamoah,director in charge of Auditing section of International Commercial Bank Ghana, and also an Account Officer to Al Gupta Kassim, a Lebanese. He was a Seasoned Contractor with Ghana Cement Company in Ghana Republic, who unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africans Flight Boeing 727 in Benin republic in December 25, 2003.You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website:www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash Before his death on the 25th December 2003, Al Gupta Kassim, has a fixed deposit account with our Bank and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me that his supposed next of kin died along with him in the crash. Since then I have made several inquiries to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you. I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank to the government. Consequently, Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 7 weeks now. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$19million can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money in the ratio of 70%:30%. Should my proposal appeal to you,and upon the receipt of your reply, I can obtain and manipulate all vital document necessary for a successful transfer of the fund into your bank account.I will also send you a detailed information about the transaction. I sincerely request your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of law, If this proposal is acceptable to you, kindly email the following Information to me. a). YOUR PRIVATE TEL/FAX NUMBERS b). CONTACT ADDRESS. Let trust and honesty be our watch ward. Waiting for your urgent response. Yours truly. Mr.Wilson Asamoah
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