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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: "BRUCE MAKAWA" <brucemamakwaw@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: brucemamakwa2@hotmail.co.uk
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 02:55:00 +0100
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT TRANSFER AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP

FROM: MR BRUCE MAKAWA
ADDRESS: 42 ROCKEY STREET YEOVILLE
JOHANESSBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL: 0027 83 955 8034
EMAIL:

ATTN:CEO/PRESIDENT.

I am MR. BRUCE MAKAWA a member of the movement for Democratic Change in
ZIMBABWE. My party is opposed to the ZANU-PF party of the incumbent
president Mr ROBERT MUGABE. I went into a partnership with a white farmer
and business in ZIMBABWE and as we progressed in business, I bought his
ideas and philosophy, which made me join the movement for democratic change
which is dominated by the white’s (OF WHICH MY COLLEAGUE IS A TOP MEMBER).
We control the great portion of the white-dominated farms in ZIMBABWE and we
are major shareholders in major companies in ZIMBABWE.

The MUGABE Government and his political associates are not tolerant to the
activities of the movement for democratic change and he is using indirect
guerrilla war tactics to oppress the members.ZIMBABWE war veterans invaded
our farms and confiscated some of our assets and held us hostage. I managed
to escaped from their brutality but my business partner died in the
struggle.

He left a message that I should sell off all our assets including the farms,
estates and the companies, ensuring that his family relocates overseas for
the future of his sons and also to invest the money properly bearing in mind
that the next step from the guerrillas will be to confiscate those remaining
assets.

I have successfully sold off the remaining portion of our estates, farms and
companies after which I managed with the help of the immigration to sneak
into JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, with the money and colleague’s family,My
COLLEAGUE survives with his wife & two sons.

In fact, we are seeking Asylum{Refugee} in SOUTH AFRICA at this moment we
arrived here on 23rd of september 2005. The total sum in our possession at
hand is the sum of USD$11.5 MILLION( ELEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
UNITED STATES DOLLARS), realized from auction, sales of the estates, farms
and companies. The money is secured in a security companies because we are
not authorized to open an account as refugees.

I got to know you from your country’s business journal in JOHANNESBURG world
Trade Center (WTC) and from my careful analysis I realized that you could
assist in this venture. All I want you to do is to make an urgent
arrangement and come to JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, so that you could open a
non-resident account, which would aid us in transferring the money into your
nominated account overseas for onward investment. I have two options for
you; the first, is that you could choose to have a certain agreeable
percentage of the money for nominating your account for this transaction.
The other is that you could as well go into a joint business partnership
with me for proper investment of the fund in your country.

Whichever way you want it, feel free to notify me. I have also mapped out
10% of the money for all kinds of expenses incurred in the process of the
transaction and if you do not prefer joint partnership, I am offering you
20% of the total sum, while the rest of 70% will be for my investment.

Contact me with the above tel/fax numbers while still maintaining the
secrecy required in this transaction. Please include your private telephone
and fax numbers in your reply for easy communication. This transaction is
100% risk free.

Best regards.
MR, BRUCE MAKAWA
{FOR THE FAMILY}

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