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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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From: piter khumalo <piter_khumalo17@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <piter_khumalo_50@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:32:18 +0200
Subject: BUSSINESS PROPOSAL
Dear Good Friend, I am a staff of a reputable Security and Finance Company here in South Africa. I will give you the name of the Company and other important information if I receive a positive reply from you For security reasons I cannot disclose my full identity to you for now until I am sure of your cooperation.
I work in the operations dept. where I serve as Consignment Officer to numerous customers who lodge their family valuable and other Treasures. One of the customers whom I worked as his Consignment officer was a wealthy diamond merchant from the Republic of Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa He lost his family in the war. He was lucky to escape alive and came to this country with his wealth. Unfortunately he died few Months back. Because this man was good to me when he was alive, I took it upon myself to travel to his country last month, to see if I could locate any of his close relations. On reaching there I discovered that his only surviving uncle died a few months back. I sponsored this trip on my own and nobody in the Company knew I was undertaking the journey so I did not present any official report of my findings back in South Africa. Now there are two things I could do with respect to the dead man's Consignement which of course contains cash money to the tune of $10m(Ten million United States Dollars). First as his Consingment officer, I could formally notify the Authorities that the man is deadand has no next of kin. In this case the Consignment would be opened and the contents (Money) forfeited to the government after some time. 0n the other hand, I can arrange for someone,who definetly will be a foreigner, to act as the next of kin of the late man so that he/she can claim the Consignment officially. This is the option l have decided to take to help myself and whoever that God brings my way. I took this option after my findings that this fund actually was a public fund looted by highly placed government officials(which my late customer was one) under the brutal military government. I want you to be my partner. All you would have to do is act as the next of kin of the dead man and the consignment will be released to you. As the consignment officer to the late man, I have all the necessary documents that you will require to claim the consignment officailly in a hitch free manner. The total Amount contained the box is USD$10 million.Please note that my late client did not officially disclose the content of the Box as cash money for security reasons and fear of loosing the fund to the state who might accuse him of money trafficking. I hope to resign my job to join you in a viable business partnership at the eventual transfer of this fund. Kindly reach me immediately using the above contact information. Also provide me with your direct telephone numbers for easy communication. Yours truly, Mr. Piter Khumalo
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