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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: "FRANK.E.MAMU" <frankmamu@sailormoon.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12.50.27 +0200
Subject: GOOD DAY
ATTN: SIR/MADAM,
STRICTLY CONFIDENCIAL.
You may be surprise to receive this letter from me since you don't know me. I am Mr Frank Etinsa Mamu, the first son of Mr Patrick Mamu, who was murdered recently in a land dispute in my country, Zimbabwe.
I got your contact here in Italy through an internet trade directory, hence I decided to write you. Before the death of my father, he had taken me to Johannesburg to deposit the some of US$20.5million (twenty million, five hundred thousand Dollars), in one of the private security companies, as if he foresaw the looming in Zimbabwe.
This money was in a box as valuable items to avoid much demurrage from the security company.
This money was meant for the purchase of new machinery and agro-chemicals for the new farms that that he had established in Swaziland.
This land problem came when our president Mr Robert Mugabe introduced a new land act "Modi Operadus" reform which wholly affected the rich white farmers and some few black farmer. As a result of the killings and mob actions by Zimbabwe war veterans and some lunatics in the society took to road, infact, a lot of people have been killed because this land reform act for which my late father was one of the victims.
It is against this that my family are scattered, I am staying in Italy, my mother and my two younger sisters are in South Africa. I have decided to transfer this money out of South Africa to a foreign account since the monetary/investment laws of Italy and South Africa prohibit Refugees (asylum seekers) to open or run accounts or be involved in any financial transactions.
As the only son, I am saddled with the responsibility of seeking a genuine and an honest foreign partner who will assist in the transferring of this fund out of South Africa shore without the knowledge of my government who is bent on taking everything that my father had
For your kind assistance, my mother and I are offering you 20% , after the successful transfer of the fund into your account. 5% will be set aside for any expenses that might incure at the course of this transaction, while the remaining 75% will be use by my family for investment in your country under your supervision as we don't know anything about investment.
Contact me ,if this proposal is of interest to you, while I implore you to maintain absolute confidentiality in this transaction.
Yours truly,
MR FRANK E. MAMU.
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