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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: "Alfred Phoogu" <alfred9p@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:48:09 +0000
Subject: Business Request

20 Sharpville Rd.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Tel: 27-83-996-0313
Fax: 27-11-507-5066
Email: phoogu@hotmail.com

ATTN CEO / PRESIDENT
Business Request

We want to transfer to overseas (22.8MUSD) Twenty-two million eight hundred
thousand united states dollars) from a Bank in South Africa, I want to ask
you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and
fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new bank a/c
immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive
this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this
important business; trusting in you and believing in God that you will never
let me down either now or in future.

I am Mr. Alfred Phoogu, the Auditor General of a bank in South Africa,
during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account
opened in the bank in 1995 and since 1998 nobody has operated on this
account again, after going through some old files in the records I
discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the
money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr. Frankline Sullivan,
a foreigner, and a sailor, and he died, since 1998. 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 as well that Frankline
Sullivan until his death was the manager Sulliv Coy.(pty). South Africa.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign
passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international
passport or driver’s license and foreign a/c because the money is in us
dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr. Frankline Sullivan is a
foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.] I
need your full co-operation to make this work fine. Because the ministry of
finance is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct
information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive
response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with
instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with us in this
business.

Apparently I need your strong assurance that you will never, never let me
down with my influence and the position of the bank officials we can
transfer this money to your reliable account which you will provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in
your country for sharing. The bank official will destroy all documents of
transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place.
I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for
onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance
from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments and to build
confidence you can travel to Johannesburg South Africa immediately to
discuss with me face to face after which I will make this remittance in your
presence and three of us will fly to your country at least two days ahead of
the money going into the account.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for us, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of transferring.

Waiting unalloyed for your response.
Mr. Alfred Phoogu

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