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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: "Moyo Family" <moyofamily2004m@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:55:30 +0200
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL

FROM:MR.JOHN MOYO
TEL: +27-73-2220646
EMail:moyo_2005@yahoo.ca

ABSOLUTLY CONFIDENTIAL


My Dear ,


This letter is not intended to cause you any embarrassment in what ever form
rather is in good
faith from a family in dear need of assistance following knowledge of your
high repute and
trustworthiness, is born out of the difficulty situation that our family has
been engulfed in since our father and bread winner of our family was forced
to relinguish his position. My name is JOHN MOYO, the elder son of Abdul
MOYO of zimbabwe.


I got your contact through South African Trade Journal here in my search for
reliable company/personal account who can assist us in transferring this
money out of South Africa. During the current war against farmers in
zimbabwe from the support of our president Robert Mugabe to claim all the
white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all
white farmers to surrenderall thier farms to his party membera nad his
followers.

My father is one of the best farmers in our country and because he didnot
support Mugabe's ideas,mugabe supporters invaded my fathers farms and burnt
everything in the farm , killing my father and took everthing he had. Before
his death, he had deposited with one security company in
Johannesburg, South Africa the sum of US$14.5M(fourteen million five hundred
thousand united
state dollars) After the death of our father, we decided to move to the
Republic of South Africa where he had deposited the money in the security
company as valuables.


It is in this regards that I, my mother and my two sisters decided to
contact overseas firms and
companies that will assist us to move this money out of south Africa
becouse as asylum seekers we
are not allowed to operate any bank account within south Africa. we have
agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for your assistance, 5% will be
mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the courtesy of this
transaction and 75% will be for our family investment in your country.


All I want you to do is to furnish me with your entire personal and fax
number and phone number for easy communication.


you can contact me on the above telephone number and e-mail address. email
me with this mail address: moyo_2005@yahoo.ca


Note that this transaction is 100% free and absolutely confidential Thanks
and best regards

JOHN MOYO

(on behalf of the family)

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