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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: mbutu mpenza <butupenza1@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:39:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: urgent business attention
Hello,
I am Dr. Mandla Mbutu, a native of Cape Town in South
Africa and I am an Executive director project
implementation with the South Africa Department of
Minerals & Energy First and Foremost my apology, for
using this medium to reach you, for a
transaction/business of this nature. Be informed that
a member of the South Africa export Promotion Council
(SEPC) who was at the Government delegation to your
country during a trade exhibition gave your enviable
credentials/particulars to me. (Though I did not
disclose this business to him) I have decided to seek
a confidential cooperation with you in the execution
of the deal described hereunder for the benefit of all
parties and hope you will keep it as a top
confidential because of the nature of this
transaction.
Within the department of Minerals & Energy where I
work as an executive director project implementation
and with the cooperation of four other top officials,
we have in our possession as overdue payments bills
totalling twenty-one million, five Hundred thousand
U.S Dollars ($21,500,000) which we want to transfer
abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a
foreign company/individual to receive the said funds
on our behalf or a reliable foreign company account to
receive such funds. More so, we are handicapped in the
circumstances, as the South Africa civil servant Code
of Conduct does not allow civil servants to operate
offshore account hence your importance in the whole
transaction.
This amount $21.5m represents the balance of the total
contract value executed on behalf of my department by
a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials
over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract
cost have been paid to the original contractor,
leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount
which we have in principles gotten approval to remit
by Telegraphic transfer (TT) to any foreign bank
account you will provide by filing in an application
through the Justice Ministry here in South Africa for
the transfer of rights and privileges of the former
contractor to you.
I have the authority of my partners involved to
propose that should you be willing to assist us in the
transaction your share of the sum will be 30% of the
$21, 5 million, 60% for us and 10% for taxation and
miscellaneous expenses. The business itself is 100%
safe, on your part provided you treat it with utmost
confidentiality. Also your area of specialization is
not a hindrance to the successful execution of this
transaction. I have reposed my confidence in you and
hope that you will not disappoint me. Endeavour to
contact me immediately through my above email
address whether or not you are interested in this deal.
If you are not, it will enable me scout for another
foreign partner to carry out this deal. I want to
assure you that my partners and myself are in a
position to make the payment of this claim possible
provided you can give us a very strong assurance and
guarantee that our share will be secured and please
remember to treat this matter as very confidential,
because we will not comprehend with any form of
exposure as we are still in active Government Service
and remember once again that time is of the essence in
this business.Remember to send in your direct phone number
and fax for easy contact.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Mandla Mbutu.
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