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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: johnson ken <johnsonken107@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:03:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT REPLY
3/5 MANDELA CLOSE,
JO- BORGTO,SOUTH AFRICA.
ATTEN:CEO/ MANAGER/OWNER.
VERY URGENT.
Dear proposed Business Associate,
I know that this message will come to you as a
surprise,yet please take time and understand my
purpose of writing you this very important mail now.We
want to transfer to your overseas bank account the sum
of ($126,000.000.00 USD) One hundred and twenty six
million United States Dollars) from a Prime Bank in
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,
if you are not capeble of handling such money.even an
empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as
you will remain honest to me till the end for this
important business trusting in you and believing in
God that you will never let me down either now or in
future.
I am Dr.Johnson Ken,the Auditor General of prime
banks here in South Africa,please take time and
understand my reason for contacting you for this
transaction. During the course of our auditing,I
discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the
bank in 1990 and since 1993 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 has been
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently
it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this
account is Mr. Allan P.Seaman, a foreigner, and an
industrialist, and he died, since 1993. 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 Allan
P. Seaman until his death was the manager Diamond
Safari [pty]. S.A. and left no official next of kin to
claim this money, inshort it has been long abandond
after his death.
If you will agree to coperate, you shall be made the
official next of kin, and inherit the whole amount and
it will then be transfered into your personal or
company bank a/c.We will start the first transfer with
twenty six million [$26,000.000,00] upon successful
transaction without any disappoint from your side,we
shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest
amount to your account. The amount involved is (USD
126 M) One hundred and twenty six million United
States Dollars only. I want to first transfer
$26,000.000 [Twenty six million United States Dollar]
from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad
before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner, 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 drivers license and foreign a/c because
the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the
a/c Mr. Allan P. Seaman is a foreigner too,and the
money can only be approved into aforeign a/c. However,
we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us
together,if you will agree to coperate with me and
secre the money,or ealse it will be reverted to govt
purse as" unclamed dept". I got your contact through
the research i made today in the south african
chambers of commerce internet bureau{S.A.C.C.I.B}i am
revealing this to you believing in God,and trusting
that you will never let me down in this business, you
are the first and the only person that I am contacting
for this business.
Also in your reply, Include your private telephone and
fax number for easy communication..
I want us to meet face to face to build confidence and
to sign a binding agreement that will bind us together
before transferring the money to any account of your
choice where the fund will be safe. Before we fly to
your country for withdrawal, sharing and investments.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,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 me in this
business. I need your strong assurance that you will
never, never let me down because with my influence and
the position of the bank official we can transfer this
money to any foreigner's reliable account which you
can 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 after the
transfer leaving no trace,making it a 100% risk free
for us. And to build better confidence you can come
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 clearing for withdrawals in your
account. I will apply for annual leave to get visa
immediately I hear from you that you are ready to act
and receive this fund in your account. I will use my
influence and position to and obtain all legal
approvals for onward transfer of this money to your
account with appropriate clearance from the relevant
ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the
conclusion of this business, you will be given 25% of
the total amount, 70% will be for us, while 5% will be
for taxes that might be incured in your country.I look
forward to your earliest and urgent reply through
e-mail johnsonken605@yahoo.com
Yours truly,
Dr.Johnson Ken.
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