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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?martin=20kolimba?= <martkol_2003@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 11:23:45 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION
FROM: JOHANESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
TELE:27-83-750-9022
ATTN: MD/C.E.O,
You might be surprise to recieve this letter from me since you don't know me personally. I am PRINCESS ROSE, the wife of late MR JAMES KOLIMBA. Who was murdered by the ZIMBABWE war veterans and irate black people. I got your contact e_mail address through South Africa chamber of commerce and industries. After due consideration of your profile, hence i decided to write to you. I write to solicit for your spercial assistance to my family shattered by a tyrannical Government led by a Dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party. President ROBERT MUGABE.
Because of land and farmland crisis in ZIMBABWE the Government Secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to disposed the land being occupied by the white farmers. This action has led to killing of some members of opposition party including my husband who did not support this ill-fated action. Before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he smuggled out the sum of US$21.5 MILLIONDOLLARS ( Twenty one million five hundred thousand united states dollars) to South Africa and deposited it in a Security Company with the intention of using it for the purchase in South Africa and establishment of a new Farm in SWAZILAND.
This money was deposited in a box as a germ stone to avoid much demurrage in the Security Company. On the 29 August 2001 the war veterans and some spotters of (ZANU_PF) ruling party trooped into our compaound and axed my husband to death and my second son of (27yrs old). Since then they have been terrorizing my son MARTIN but he managed to escape to neigboring Country SOUTH AFRICA as a political asylum seeker (REFUGEE). His position is SOUTH AFRICA does not permits him to open an account or to operate any business. That is why i want the fund to be transferred in your account, So that you will assist him to invest the money in your country. I must let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free. IF you accept to assist us, all I want from you is to arrange and come down to Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA so that you can help him to open a non-resident Bank account in your name which will aid us in transferring the money into your nominating account overseas.
I have two option for you,firtly, you can choose to hev certain percentage of the money for nominating your account in this transaction or we can go into pertnership with you for the proper profitable inverstment of the money in your country which ever the option you eant, feel free to notify with him. He will then furnish you with sum for any expenses that might be incurred during the time of this transaction. IF you do not prefer a partnership, We are willing to give you 25% of the money while remaining 70% will remain for my family, If you are really capable and willing to assist us please contact him immediately in SOUTH AFRICA with this e-mail (approval777@rediffmail.com) or call him on this his mobile number 27-83-750-9022. his names are MARTIN KOLIMBA.
Finally please trat this mater as urgent as possible, I'm in dire him to leave that country soonest. Thanks for your matual co-operation. I expecting your soonest and urgent response.
Best Regards,
(PRINCESS ROSE KOLIMBA)
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