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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: "fred kular" <fredkular11@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:38:09 +0200
Subject: Business Assistance
Mr. Fred Kular,
Director, Retail Banking Division (west),
First National Bank,
Johannesburg South Africa.
ATTN:
Dear Sir
I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition having gone
through your remarkable profile on the internet. Though, this medium
(Internet)has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because
it still remains the fastest, surest and most secured medium of
communication .However,this correspondence is unofficial and private, and it
should be treated as such.
I also guarantee you that this deal is hitch free from all what you may
think of. I am Mr. Williams Zuma, Director, Retail Banking Division with
Frist National Bank, Johnannesburg South Africa.I have an urgent and very
profitable business proposition for you that should be handled with extreme
confidentiality. On January 6,1998 a Foreign Consultant and contractor with
the South Africa Railway Corporation Mr. Abbas Gumeri by name made a
numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve calendar months valued at
US$38.6M(Thirty Eight Million, Six Hundred United States Dollars Only) in my
branch. Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance with
the Bank policy to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After a month we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract
employers South Africa Railway Corporation that Mr. Abbas Gumeri died from
an automobile accident. On further investigation, we found out that he died
without making a Will and all attempts to trace his next of kin was
fruitless. I therefore made further investigations and discovered that Mr.
Abbas Gumeri did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his
official documents including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$38.6M has been carefully moved out of my bank to a Financial
and Security Company in Europe for safekeeping. No one will ever come
forward to claim it and according to the Law of my country, at the
expiration of 7 years the money will revert to the ownership of the State
(Government) if nobody applies to claim the fund. This prompted us to
contact you.
We want to front you as the next of kin of our late client thereby making
you the legal beneficiary of the sum of $38.6 million U.S Dollars that is
presently in a Financial and Security Company in Europe. I contacted you
because it is against our code of ethics to own and operate foreign accounts
and your assistance would be needed to claim the money in the Financial and
Security Company in Europe.
We have unanimously agreed that 25% of the entire sum would be for you if
you agree to take part in this profitable transaction,65% for me while the
remaining 10% would be used to pay back the expenses that may be incurred
during the course of the transaction by bothparties after the fund has been
claimed and lodged in your account.In the event that you are genuinely
interested in the transaction,the following information would be needed from
you to expedite action.
1) Your Full Name .
2) Your Residential or Company Address.
3) Your Private Mobile,Telphone and Fax numbers where you can be reached at
all time because this transaction entails constant communication.
The transaction is 100% legal and totally free of risks as all modalities
has been perfected to ensure the hitch free success of the transaction. If
you are interested, send the requested information via my alternative
email "...@..." as soon as possible so that we can proceed.
I await your response urgently.
Regards,
Fred Kular (+27-73-757-4880).
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