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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: "thomson jacobs" <jc22jc@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: th00jc@myway.com
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 21:36:15 +0200
Subject: Message From Mr.Jacobs
18 SILVER CRESCENT
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA.
Phone:+874-763-427980.
Fax:+874-763-427981.
Dear Sir/Madam,
First of all let me introduce myself to you, My name is Mr.Thomson Jacobs,a
consulting auditor of a Bank here in South Africa.
Without wasting much time,let me go straight to the point.On June
6,1998,there was an American Mining consultant/contractor with the South
African Mining corporation, Mr.Gregory A.Williams who made a numbered time
(fixed)deposit with Invetec Bank here in South Africa for twelve calendar
months, value US $14,200,000.00 an account. On maturity, The bank sent a
routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply from him.
After a month,The bank sent another reminder and finally his contract
employers,the South African Mining corporation wrote to inform the bank that
Mr.Gregory A.Williams died from an automobile accident. And he died without
MAKING A WILL attached to his account, More so, all attempts by the American
Embassy to trace his next of kin was fruitless.
I therefore, made further investigation and discovered that Mr.Gregory
A.Williams in fact was an immigrant from Jamaica and only recently obtained
American citizenship.He did not declare any kin or relations in all his
official documents, including his Bank deposit paper work. This money total
US $14,200,000.00 is still sitting in the bank as dormant Account.
No one will ever come forward to claim it, and according to South African
banking policy,after 5years, the money will revert to the ownership of the
South African Government if the account owner is certified dead. This is the
situation, and my proposal is that I am looking for a foreigner who will
stand as the next of kin to Mr.Gregory A.Williams and provide a Bank Account
abroad which will then facilitate the transfer of this money to the
beneficiary/next of kin.
This is simple, all you have to do is to immediately send me bank account
information where you know that the Fund will be safe when the transfer take
place for me to arrange the proper money transfer paperwork. An empty
account can serve provided the account is valid.This money total USD
($14.2M) will then be paid into the Account for us to share in the ratio of
60% for me, 35% for you and 5% for expenses that might come up during
transfer process. There is no risk at all, and all the paper work for this
transaction will be done by me using my position and connection in the banks
in South Africa.
Please observe the utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this
transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require
your assistance to invest my share in your country.
I look forward to your earliest reply through my email address or you call
me on my Satellite phone no. above. Thanks and god bless.
Yours truly.
Mr.Thomson Jacobs.
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