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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: "dr alexander khumalo" <alex_kho001@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:40:13 +0200
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT:
CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT:
ATTN: PRESIDENT / MANAGING DIRECTOR
PROPOSAL FOR URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE.
ATTN: Sir/Madam,
I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive
and worried, but I am assuring you that everything will be well at the end
of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this
transaction. Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am
DR ALEXANDER KUHMALO, an auditor attached with the NEDBANK OF SOUTH AFRICA
and I got your contact address from your country’s Trade Journal in my
search for a reliable individual/company who can assist us.
There was a foreigner, LATE ENGINEER JEAN CLAUDE PIERRE, a Gold Merchant
with the Government of South Africa, and a Miner at Kruger’s Gold Mine,
Johannesburg, South Africa. Until his death in a Kenya Air Bus (A310 - 304)
Flight KQ431, he banked with Ned Bank of South Africa, Johannesburg and had
a closing balance as at the end of June 2000 worth US$24,000,000.00 (Twenty
Four Million United State Dollars), (this is aside the accrued interest so
far from that date) the bank now expects his Next of Kin as beneficiary.
Valuable efforts have been made by the Bank to get in touch with any of the
Claude's Family or Relatives but to no success. It is due to the perceived
possibility of not being able to locate any of Late Engr. Jean Claude
Pierre’s NEXT of KIN (He had no wife and no children that is known to us).
The Management under the influence of our Chairman and Members of the Board
of Directors, arrangement has been made for the fund to be declared
"UNCLAIMED" and subsequently be donated to the TRUST FUNDS for arms and
ammunition to further enhance the course of wars in Africa and the World in
General.
In order to avert this negative development, some of my trusted colleagues
and I now seek your permission to have you stand as Next of Kin to the late
Engr.Jean Claude Pierre so that the fund will be released and paid into your
Account as the beneficiary/next of kin. All documents and proves to enable
you get this fund will be carefully worked out. We have secured from the
Probate Registry, an order of Mandamus to locate any of the deceased's
beneficiary(ies), So we are assuring you that this business is 100% Risk
Free. It is real and a genuine business.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 25% of the total
amount, 70% will be for my colleagues and myself, while 5% will be for
expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of
transferring.
However, It might interest you to know that you can claim the fund in our
bank's main branch here in Johannesburg, South Africa or in our
corresponding bank in Madrid, Spain. Should you be interested in claiming
the money from our correspondent bank in Spain, we have a colleague in that
bank, who will offer you assistance in Spain and who will be willing to talk
with you on phone as soon as possible
We shall arrange to change the name of beneficiary in your favour with our
bank and also the Probate Registry of the Government of South Africa.
Kindly indicate your interest to enable us make arrangements to get the
necessary supporting and back up documents that will make you eligible to
claim the funds as his Next of Kin.
Would you wish to assist,please call me on Tel: +27 733 665 015 or Fax: +27
727 918 528 or Email me on my private Email address
Email:privatemail@executivemail.co.za for details. In case you cannot
assist, please maintain the high level of confidentiality needed in this
transaction. Kindly send your private telephone and fax numbers
Accept my warm regards as I await your response.
Sincerely,
Dr. ALEXANDER KUHMALO.
Email:privatemail@executivemail.co.za
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