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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: "Frank and Monica Lewis." <mlewis@galmail.co.za> (may be fake)
Reply-To: frankleweez@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:32:20 +0100
Subject: REQUEST FOR AID
Dear Sir/ Madam,
My name is Monica Lewis, the wife of late Michael Lewis. I
got your details during my search on the net. During the
crises against the white farmers of Zimbabwe by the
supporters of the President Robert Mugabe to claim all the
white owned farms in the country, he ordered all the white
farmers to surrender their farms to his party members and
their followers.
My husband was one of the best farmers in the country and
knowing that he did not support the president's political
ideology, the president's supporters invaded my husband's
farm, burnt down everything, shot him and as a result of
the wounds sustained, he became sick and died after two
days. I had been a widow since then with my only son- Frank
Lewis. We decided to move out of Zimbabwe for the safety of
our lives to South Africa.
My Husband's will was released and we were notified that he
had deposited the sum of $20.7million with a Security
Company in Johannesburg (South Africa) in case of any
eventuality (i.e that may be caused by death). We are now
living in South-Africa as Political Asylum Seekers and the
financial law of South Africa do not allow any Asylum
seeker any financial right to operate such huge amount of
money. In view of this I cannot invest this money in
South-Africa hence I am asking you to assist us in the
transfer of this money out of South-Africa for investment
purposes.
For your efforts I am prepared to offer you 30% of the
total fund while 70% will be kept for my family- for
investments. Immediately we establish trust within
ourselves, I would go ahead to give you all the details you
might require to know about this fund. The funds was
deposited in my Son's name and it can be claimed by us only
with the help of a foreign partner using the deposit code.
For verification purposes, please visit the links below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm
Please if you are willing to help us, please respond to
this email:frankleweez@yahoo.co.uk so you and my son
could arrange for the transaction. May God bless you.
Regards,
Frank and Monica Lewis.
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