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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: FRED KHUMALO <fred.khumalo020@msn.com>
Reply-To: <fred.khumalo@live.co.za>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:13:10 +0000
Subject: =?windows-1256?Q?FROM_ABSA_?= =?windows-1256?Q?MANAGER:_T?=
=?windows-1256?Q?REAT_AS_UR?= =?windows-1256?Q?GENT=FE?=
ROM: FREDRICK KHUMALO
E-MAIL:fred.khumalo@live.co.za
20 BOTHA CRESCENT,
SANDTON, JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
MD/CEO,
APPEAL FOR ASSISSTANCE
I am Fredrick Khumalo a manager at AMALGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (ABSA).
First and foremost, I apologize using this medium to reach you for a transaction / business of this magnitude, but this is due to Confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium. 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. I plea to seek a confidential co-operation 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 secret because of the nature of this transaction.
There is an account opened in this bank in 1990 and since 1998 nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account was MR. SAMUEL CARTER , a foreigner, and a miner at Kruger gold co., a geologist by profession and he died since 1998.
No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account and the amount involved is (USD$35,000,000M) thirty five million United States Dollars.
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign account because the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the account late MR. SAMUEL CARTER was a foreigner too.
I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before. We will sign an agreement, but be sure that it is real and a genuine business.
Please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take immediately. Send also your private telephone and fax number.
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. I need truthful person in this business because I don't want to make mistake I need your strong assurance and trust.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30 percent of the total amount, 70 percent will be for me.
I look forward to your earliest reply
Yours truly,
Fredrick Khumalo
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