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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: mbekiconsulting@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 16:25:13 +0200
Subject: Urgent Need
Sir/Madam
Greetings!
I foresee your surprise to receive this letter from me since you don't know me before.
My name is Honorable Mr. Lucky Mbeki. I am the personal financial consultant to one Mr. C.C. Makaradish a citizen of your country. I am contacting you due to my serious search /your assistance to locate his relative(s) which will definitely benefit both you and I.
My client Mr. C.C. Makaradish was an engineer/contractor who worked with ANGLO GOLD MINES LIMITED, got involved in a car accident on Wednesday the 4th of April 2001 while traveling along Johannesburg Pretoria (N1) highway with his wife and their only daughter. Unfortunately there was no survivor in that crash.
I am aware of him leaving the huge sum of USD$ 17.6M (seventeen million six hundred thousand united states dollar) in financial house of South Africa which is unclaimed since his death. I have locally searched for his relative(s) here in South Africa without any success for over three (3) years now and last week I got a letter from the Bank saying that, the fund will be forfeited to the National Treasury of South Africa if his next of kin fail to come forward to claim the money in the next twenty one (21) office working days.
The Bank letter motivated me to search through with his Country name hence I have to contact you. In this situation, I am soliciting your consent to urgently appear/front yourself as the next of kin because you are from same country of origin.
Fortunately, I have all the papers to authentically support you by law to claim inheritance and afterward disburse the money with you since the Bank is ready to release his fund to a next of kin. In this context, we will not go wrong and as soon as the fund is confirmed into your account, you will be entitled to 35% of the total sum for your participation and 10% of the fund will be for the charity organization, 5% for any expenses we might incur while 50% will be for me.
Please, I like you to look for profitable investment in your country because I intend investing part of my proceeds in your country, with you as an overseer on my behalf pending my retirement. I must not fail to tell you that this transaction is 100% risk free. I beg you to keep this transaction a top secret even if you are not interested. However, if it interests you to champion this transaction, quickly reach me immediately for us to follow it up. Give your fax number and I will fax you his death certificate upon your positive reply.
I thank you for your co-operation in anticipation.
Best regards,
Hon, Mr. Lucky Mbeki.
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