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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: johntambo2000@netscape.net
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:54:23 +0200
Subject: ****STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL****
Sir,
It is my great pleasure in writing you this
letter on
behalf of my
colleagues .Your particulars were given to
me by a
member of the South
African Export Promotion Council
(S.A.E.P.C.) who was
with the Government
delegation to your country during a trade
exhibition.
I have decided 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 a top
secret because of the nature of this
business.
Within the Department of Minerals and
Energy where I
work as a Director,
Project Implementation and with the co-
operation of
four other top
officials, we have in our possession as
overdue
payment bills totalling
fourteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States
Dollars (US$14.5m)
which we want to transfer abroad with the
assistance
and co-operation of a
foreign company and/or individual to
receive the said
funds on our behalf or
a reliable foreign individual account to
receive these
funds.
The amount represented some percentage of
the total
contract value
executed on behalf of my Department by a
foreign
contracting firm which we
the officials over-invoiced. Though the
actual
contract cost has been paid
to the original contractor, leaving the
balance in the
tune of the said
amount which we have in principle gotten
approval to
remit to any foreign
bank account you will provide.
Since the present Government of South
Africa is
determined to pay foreign
contractors all debts owed so as to
maintain good
relationship with Foreign
Governments and non-Government Financial
Agencies, we
have decided to
include our bills for approvals with the
co-operation
of some officials from
the Ministry of Finance. We are seeking
your
assistance in providing a good
company's account or any other offshore
bank account
into which we can
transfer this money by acting as our main
partner and
trustee or acting as
the original contractor. This we can do by
swapping of
account and changing
of beneficiary and other forms of
documentation upon
application for claim
to reflect the payment and approvals to be
secured on
behalf of you/our
company.
It may interest you to know that a few
years ago, a
similar transaction
was carried out with one Mr. Patrice
Miller, The
President of Crane
International Trading Corporation, at No.
135, East
57th Street, 28th Floor,
New York, 10022, with Telephone No. (212)
308-7788 and
Telex No. 6731680.
After the agreement between the partners,
in which he
was to take 15% of the
money, which was duly transferred into his
account
only to be disappointed
on arrival in New York as we were reliably
informed
that Mr. Patrice Miller
was no longer on that address, while his
Telephone and
Telex Numbers had
been changed that is how we lost US$21.43M
to Mr.
Patrice Miller.
This time around we need a more reliable
and
trustworthy person or a
reputable company to do business with,
hence this
letter to you. If you are
interested and can prove yourself to be
trustworthy
then we can do this
transaction with you.
I have the authority of my partners
involved to
propose that should you be
willing to assist us in this transaction
your share as
compensation will be
(25%), (65%) for us and (10%) for taxation
and
miscellaneous expenses
The business itself is 100% safe, provided
you treat
it with utmost
secrecy and confidentiality. Also your area
of
specialization is not a
hindrance to the successful execution of
this
transaction. I have reposed my
confidence in you and hope that you will
not
disappoint me. Call me on my
direct or write me mail Tel No: 27-73 284 4421 or
Fax
No:
27 -11-507--6116 with your response to
indicate your
willingness in assisting us.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. John Tambo
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