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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: zackmoyo11@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:50:35 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL / INVESMENT ASSISTANCE

Mr ZACK MOYO
34 Gallo Court, 3 Aveune, Florida 1710
Johannesburg South Africa
Tel :( 27)-833725196
E-mail zackmoyo11@tiscali.co.uk


BUSINESS PROPOSAL / INVESMENT ASSISTANCE

Dear Sir,

I am Mr ZACK MOYO , a Zimbabwean and the son of Mr Edward Moyo, a
renowned Farmer in Bulawayo Town in Zimbabwe. I write on behalf of the Moyo's
family, to request if you are available and have the facility to assist
my family undertake some apitalinvestment in your ountry.

it will be necessary to inform you that the {US$28M}Twenty Eight million
united states dollars)intended for pitalization of the investments are presently
in the custody of a private security company here in Johannesburg, South
Africa which we require to transfer out of South Africa immediately for
the said investment purposes.

You may have heard of the present crisis in Zimbabwe orchestrated by the
unprecedented Land use Act of the government of Robert Mugabe in which this
government has arbitrarily reclaimed and acquired all
farm lands owned by the white farmers in the country.

This has caused a historical displacement of the white folks who are known
to be the country's mainfarmers.The ensuing struggles and strife have brought
about the killing and imprisonment of thousands of these white farm owners
by the ruthless government forces designated to enforce this new rder.

My father, in his good will, joined the international community in condemning
and speaking out against this uncivilized and bizarre policy of Robert Mugabe
s government. As a result of my father firm and upright position on this
matter, a group of assailants suspected to be government sympathizers attached
and killed my father in cold blood in February last year.

Seeing that the entire Moyo's family was in serious threat of extinction,
we immediately fled Zimbabwe to South Africa, where we have sojourned ever
since as refugee under the United Nations.

Prior however, to my father untimely death he had sensing the rising hostilities,
sold some of his farm lands including those of some of his white farmer
associates who had transferred ownership of their farm
lands to my father to forestall the government acquiring them. My father
secretly sent the proceeds {US$28m} Twenty Eight million United States dollars
from sales of the farm lands to South Africa. And
deposited same in a metal box with a private security company here in Johannesburg.


Having seen your contact information in my father's private study we now
contact you for immediate assistance in lifting the funds out of South
Africa for the said investments. It will interest you also to note that
we have all this while articulated the needful arrangements through which
the transfer will be affected. To come to terms with you regarding your
reward for helping us actualize this matter, we have agreed to offer you
20% of the total money ,5% will be mapped out for the expenses we may incur
during this transaction then 75% will be for me and my family.

It is equally important to state here that considering the nature of this
matter, we will required that it is handled most discreetly.

Kindly contact me using the above particulars upon receipt of this letter
for execution details and other necessary discussion.
In anticipation of your trusted and genuine assistance I remain,

Yours sincerely

Mr ZACK MOYO


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