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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: "JOHN EGBE" <lawegbe2004@yahoo.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: lawmix2004@fastermail.com
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:05:22 -0700
Subject: REQUEST.
Compliments of the Season
It is my great pleasure to write you this letter on
behalf of my colleagues Your information were given
to me by a member of the South African Export
Promotion Council (SAEPC) who was with the Black
Economic Empowerment Commission Government
delegation on a trip to the United States during a
bilateral conference talk to encourage foreign
investors I have decided to seek a confidential
co-operation with you in the execution of a deal
hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you
will keep it confidential because of the nature of
business.
Within the Department of Mining Resources where I work
as the Director of Project Implementation with
co-operation of three other top officials we have in
our possession an overdue payment in US funds.
The said funds represent certain percentage of the
contract value executed on behalf of my Ministry by a
foreign contracting firm which we the officials
over-invoiced to the amount of US$22,5000,0000
Twenty Two Million five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars Though the actual contract cost has
been paid to the original contractor leaving the
excess balance unclaimed.
The Government of the Republic of South Africa
believes that private investment in general and
foreign direct investment in particular are the real
engines for sustainable economic development for
which reason it has continued to encourage investments
in the key growth oriented sector of Mining with
sincere determination to pay foreign contractors all
debts owed to them so as to continue to enjoy close
relationship and a mutually beneficial co-operation
with foreign governments and non-governmental
financial agencies As a result we included our bills
for approvals with the co-operation of some officials
at the Department of Finance and the Reserve Bank of
South Africa (RBSA) We are seeking your assistance as
the beneficiary of the unclaimed funds since we are
not allowed by law to operate a foreign account
Details and changing of beneficiary information and
other forms of documentation upon application for
claim to reflect the payment and approvals will be
secured on behalf of your company or your good self
I have the authority of my colleagues involved to
propose that should you be willing to assist us in
this transaction your share as compensation will be
25% while my colleagues and I shall receive 70% and
the balance of 5% shall be used to reimburse all
expenditures taxes and miscellaneous expenses so
incurred.
It does not matter whether or not your company does
contract projects of the nature described here The
assumption is that your company won the major contract
and subcontracted it to other companies More often
than not big trading companies and firms of unrelated
fields win major contracts and subcontract same to
more specialized firms for execution
This business itself is 100% safe provided you treat
it with utmost confidentiality Also your
specialization is not a hindrance to the successful
execution of this mutually beneficial transaction I
repose confidence in you and hope that you will not
disappoint us.
Kindly notify me by email for further details upon your
acceptance of this proposal
Regards
John Egbe
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