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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: jokawamba@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:27:19 +0200
Subject: Urgent
Joseph Kawamba
PHONE:+27-83-549 7672.
Dear Sir;
I pray this proposal meet your kind cooperation. I am Mr.Joseph kAWAMBA a
native of Cape Town in South Africa and I am an Executive Accountant
with the South Africa Department of Mining & Natural Resources. First and
foremost, I apologized using this medium to reach you for a transaction/business of this magnitude,
but this is due to
Confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium. Be informed that a member of
the South Africa Export Promotion Council (SEPC) who was at the Government
delegation to your country during a trade exhibition gave your enviable
credentials/particulars to me. I plea to seek a confidential
co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described Hereunder for the
benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the
nature of this transaction.
Within the Department of Mining & Natural Resources where I work as an
Executive Accountant and with the cooperation of two other top
officials, we have in our possession as overdue payment bills totaling Forty - Five Million, Five
Hundred And Sixty Thousand U. S. Dollars ($45,560,000.) which we want
to transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a foreign
company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable
foreign non-company account to receive such funds. More so, we are
handicapped in the circumstances, as the South Africa Civil Service
Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore account hence your
importance in the whole transaction.
This amount $45.560m represents the balance of the total contract value
executed on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm,
which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract
cost have been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in the
tune of the said amount which we have in principles gotten approval to remit
by Telegraphic Transfer (T.T) to any foreign bank account you will provide
by filing in an application through the Justice Ministry here in South
Africa for the transfer of rights and privileges of the former contractor to
you.
I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that, should
you be willing to assist us in this transaction that is 100% hitch free, your
share of the sum will be 25% of the $45.560 million, 70% for us and 5% for
taxation and miscellaneous expenses. The business itself is 100% safe,
on your part provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality.
Also your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful
execution of this transaction. I have reposed my confidence in you and
hope that you will not disappoint me. Endeavor to contact me immediately
through my above Tel number or my e-mail address, whether or not you are
interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another
foreign partner to carry out this deal I want to assure you that my partners
and myself are in a position to make the payment of this claim possible
provided you can give us a very strong Assurance and guarantee that our share
will be secured and please remember to treat this as very confidential because,
we will not comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active
Government Service and remember once again that time is of the essence
in this business.
I await in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
MR.Joseph Kawamba
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