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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: khumalojackson@netscape.net
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:56:24 +0200
Subject: Business proposal
From: Mr. Jackson Khumalo
Central Johannesburg,
South Africa.
13/01/2005
For your kind attention:
I know that this message will come to you as a
surprise since we don't know
each other before, but for the purpose of
introduction, I am Mr Jackson Khumalo one of the top personnels of the account/ Forex Department ABSA South Africa.I am writing to seek your assistance with respect to the content of the mail below.
There is an account opened in this bank in 1980 and
since 1990 nobody has
operated on this account again.
After going through some old files in the records, I
discovered that if I do
not remit this money out urgently it would be
forfeited for nothing. The
owner of this account is Mr.Smith B.Andreas, a
foreigner,
and a miner at Kruger gold company,a geologist by
profession and he died
since 1990. No other person knows about this account
or any thing concerning
it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
Investigation proved to me
as well that his company does no! t know anything
about this account and the
amount involved is US$9.5Million( Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this
money cannot be
approved to a local bank here, but can only be
approved to any foreign
account because the money is in us dollars and the
former owner of the
account is Mr.Smith B.Andreas is a foreigner too.I
know that this message
will come to you as a surprise as we don't know
ourselves before. We will
sign an agreement, but be sure that it is real and a
genuine business.
Please reply urgently so that I will inform you the
next step to take
immediately. Send also your private telephone and
fax number including the
full details of the account to be used for the
deposit. I want us to meet
face to face or sign a binding agreement to bind us
together so that you can
receive this money into a foreign account or any
account of your choice
where the fund will be safe. And I will fly to your
country for withdrawal
and sharing and other investments.
I am contacting you because of the need to involve a
foreigner with foreign
account and foreign beneficiary. I need your full
co-operation to make this
work fine because the management is ready to approve
this payment to any
foreigner, who has correct information of this
account, which I will give to
you immediately, if you are capable and willing to
handle such amount in
strict confidence and trust according to my
instructions and advice for our
mutual benefit because this opportunity will never
come again in my life. I
need truthful person in this business because I
don't want to make mistake I
need your strong
assurance and trust.
With my position now in the office I can transfer
this money to any
foreigner's reliable account, which you! can provide
with assurance that
this money will be intact pending my physical
arrival in your country for
sharing.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be
given 25% of the total
amount, 75% will be for me, I look forward to your earliest reply through my
Yours truly,
Mr Jackson Khumalo.
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