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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: "Mr.Johnson Mubane" <johnmubane1@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: johnmubane1@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 12:05:34 +0000
Subject: Special Offer
Good Day,
with warm hearts I offer my friendship, and my
greetings, and I hope this letter meets you in good
time. It will be surprising to you to receive this
proposal from me since you do not know me personally.
However, I am sincerely seeking your confidence in
this transaction, which I propose with my free mind
and as a person of integrity.
My name is JOHNSON IBEH MUBANE, the son of MUBANE, a
farmer from Zimbabwe, murdered in the land dispute in
my country. As led by my instinct, I decided to
contact you through email, after searching for
contacts via the internet, as it is the only means I
can contact anybody since I am cutting off ties with
Zimbabwe for now. I apologize if this is not
acceptable to you.
The purpose of this letter is to seek your most needed
assistance in a business venture. Due to the land and
political problems in Zimbabwe, as a result of
President Robert Mugabe's introduction of new Land Act
Reform wholly affecting the rich white farmers and the
few rich black farmers, all white farmers were asked
to surrender their farms to the government for
re-distribution and infact to his political party
members and my father though black was the treasury of
the farmers association and a strong member of an
opposition party that did not support the president's
idea. He then ordered his party members and the police
under his pay row to invade my father's farm and burn
down everything in the farm. They killed my father and
took away a lot of items from his farm.
After the death of my father, our local pastor and a
close friend of my father handed us over his will
documents with instructions from my father that we
should leave Zimbabwe incase anything happen to him.
The will documents has a certificate of deposit,
confirming a cash deposit totaling Fifteen million
five hundred thousand united state dollars. [15.5m]
Kept in custody for us in a security company unknown
to the company that the content is money hence it was
deposited as personal belongings. This money was
deposited with this Private Security Company for
safety and security reasons, and was to be used for
the purchase of land, new machines and chemicals
establishment of new farms in Botswana.
This violent and barbaric act by Mugabe has since led
to the death of my beloved mother and kid sister and
other innocent lives. I was continually threatened to
abandon my inheritance from my father after he was
murdered. I resisted for a while, but when the danger
became unbearable, and I survived two murder attempts,
I fled Zimbabwe with the help of my father's close
friend Mr. John Casahans from Australia also a farmer
who was leaving in Zimbabwe with us but left
with his family following this ugly development, I
have tried to reach him but all to no avail.
I am currently staying in the Netherlands where I am
seeking political asylum. In fact my decision to come
here to seek asylum, is because the security company
from South Africa, has a branch here, I have contacted
them to move the safe deposit from their
office in Johannesburg here, which they have since
done. I need to transfer this money to an account and
invest part of the money. Since the law of Netherlands
prohibits a refugee (asylum seeker) to open any bank
account or to be involved in any financial
transaction, this is why I am seeking a genuine and
reliable partner, whose account this money can be
transferred, hence this proposal to you.
You have to understand that this decision taken by me
is a very big and brave one, and it entrusts my future
in your hands, as a result of the safe keeping of this
money.
If you accept to assist me, all I want you to do for
me, is to assist with arrangements to claim the
deposit from here.The company will be fully aware of
your representation, hence a change of ownership would
be legally done to this effect.
For your assistance, I have two options for you.
Firstly you can choose to have 20% of the money for
your assistance, and helping me open an account for
the money to be deposited here, or you can go into
partnership with me for the proper profitable
investment of the money in your country. Whichever
option you want, please notify me in your reply. I
have also set aside 5% of this money for all
kinds of expenses that come our way in the process of
this transaction, and 2% for Charity donation. If you
prefer to accept the 20% for your moral and financial
assistance then the balance will be left in the
account here for me.
Finally, I want you to maintain absolute secrecy for
the purpose of this transaction.Your reply should be
sent to my private email address only
(johnmubane1@hotmail.com)
I look forward to your reply while thanking you for
your understanding and anticipated co-operation.
Sincerely,
JOHNSON I. MUBANE
PLEASE YOU CAN READ ABOUT PROBLEMS IN ZIMBABWE FROM
THE LINKS BELOW.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.s
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