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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: ombaka1@handbag.com
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:10:25 +0100
Subject: FROM OLIVER MBAKA
Mr.OLIVER.E.Mbaka,
ombaka@mail2oliver.com
Cape Town
South Africa
It is my great pleasure to write you this letter on behalf of my colleagues.
Your information was given to me by a member of the South African ExportPromotion
Council (SAEPC) who was with the Government delegation on a trip to your
Country during a bilateral conference talk to encourage foreign investors.
I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in execution
of a deal hereunder for the benefit of all parties, and hope you will keep
it confidential because of the nature of this business.
Within the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources where I work as a Director
of Project Implementation, and with co-operation of four other top officials,
we have in our possession an overdue payment in US funds. The said funds
represent certain percentage of the contract value executed on behalf of
my Ministry by some foreign contracting firms, which we the officials over-invoiced
to the amount of US$14,500,000.00 (Fourteen Million,Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars). Though the actual contract costs have been paid
to the original contractor leaving the excess balance unclaimed.
Since the present elected Government is determined to pay foreign contractors
all debts owed, so as to maintain good relations with foreign governments
and non-governmental financial agencies. As a result we included our bills
for approvals with the co-operation of some officials at the Department
of Finance and the Reserve Bank of South Africa (RBSA). We are seeking your
assistance as the beneficiary of the unclaimed funds, since we are not allowed
to operate a foreign account.
I have the authority of my colleagues involved to propose that, should you
be willing to assist us in this transaction, your share as compensation
will be 20% while my colleagues and I receive 70%, and the balance of 10%
for taxes andmiscellaneous expenses incurred. It does not matter whether
or not your company does contract projects of the nature described
here. The assumption is that your company won the major contract and subcontracted
it to other companies. More often than not, big trading companies and firms
of unrelated fields wins major contracts and subcontract to more specialized
firms for execution.
Endeavor to contact me immediately to indicate whether or not you are interested
in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another foreign
partner to carry out this deal. Please contact me through (ombaka@mail2oliver.com).
I want to assure you that my partners and myself are in a position to make
the payment of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong
assurance and guarantee that our share will be secured and please remember
to treat this matter as very confidential matter, because we will not afford
any form of exposure as we are still in active Government Service and remember
once again that time is of the essence to our successful execution of this
transaction. I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
This business itself is 100% safe, provided you treat it with utmost 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 us.
Best Regards
Mbaka.Oliver T.(Mr.)
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