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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: "Louis martin" <louismartin101@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: louismartinsgezi2005@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:04:52 +0200
Subject: Dear Ong
FROM: MRS MONICA MARTINS
P.O.BOX 46380 ORANGE GROVE
2119 J.H.B SOUTH AFRICA
TEL +0027 73 2211-022
FAX +0027 11 507-6672
Dear Ong,
Compliment of the day to you. I am Mrs Monica Gezi Martins from Zimbabwe. I
wish to inform your reputable self/firm on behalf of my entire family and my
son..Louis Gezi about an immensely beneficial business transaction that
involves the sum US$15.4M which was deposited by late husband in the name of
our only son Louis Gezi in a security company here in RSA before his death
on the 27th of July 2001. We've decided to contact you base on the profound
expertise information gathered your country's industrial directory.
My family is presently in the Republic of South Africa as assylum refugees
owing to the land reform crises in my country Zimbabwe which led to the
death of my late husband (Mentu Gezi Martins). Consqently, we have decided
to invest and re-settle outside the African continent due to geometric
economic depression and increase in crises which leads to detoriation of
human rights, devaluation of currencies, acute scarcity of food and other
amenities. I hope you may have heard of the crises in Zimbabwe over the CNN
AND BBC news.
You can as well read more about the crises in my country Zimbabwe on the
following sites:
1)http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/
2)http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html
3)http://www.mdczimbabwe.com
In a nullshell, my family would like you/your company to assist us in the
following areas:
1)To assist my family in transfering this huge sum of money into you or your
company's/private account for our investment(s) in your country.
2) To advise us on the monetary policies including the taxable percentage(s)
on the said money when transferred into your country by the your Government.
3) To advise my family on the profitable and reliable investment(s)
opportunities in your country
You shall be extensively briefed on more information about this proposal,
the modalities ALREADY PUT IN PLACE in expediting it and you are due for 20%
of the total money for your services to my family, 10% for any incurable
expenses and 70% for my family's investment. Please feel free to reach my
family on this e-mail address: louismartin101@hotmail.com or call me or my
son Louis (The beneficiary of this money) on this direct number 27 73 2211
022 for more clearifications.
Please keep to the ABSOLUTE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THIS TRANSACTION AND I WOULD
BE EXTREMELY GLAD IF MY REQUEST IS GRANTED. ALSO NOTE THAT THIS TRANSACTION
100% RISK FREE, TRANSPARENT AND LEGITIMATE AND ALL THE RELATED DOCUMENTS ARE
INTACT.
Waiting for your immediate response together with your contact detalis.
Best Regards,
Mrs. Monica Gezi Martins
for the family
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