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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: "John Kelly" <johkel44@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jkell@eramail.co.za
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:01:27 -0800
Subject: Sincere Demand
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
RE: TRANSFER OF (US$34,000,000.00) (THIRTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS)
Dear Sir/Madam,
We want to transfer to overseas ($ 34,000.000.00 USD) thirty four million
united states dollars)) from a Bank in Africa, I want to ask you to quietly look
for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide
either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to
receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long
as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important
business trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down
either now or in future.
I am John Kelly, the OPERATIONS MANAGER of MERCANTILE BANK SOUTH
AFRICA, during the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an
account opened in the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on
this account again, after going through some old files in the records I
discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the
money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr Lorin Donadio ,a foreigner, and an
Industrialist, who died since 1993 and no other person knows about this
account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and
my investigation proved to me as well that Mr Lorin Donadio until his death
was the manager of Donadio Coy.(pty). We will start the first transfer with
twenty four million dollars (US$24,000,000.00) upon successful transaction
without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the
payment of the remaining amount to your account.
The amount involved is (US$34M) thirty four million us dollars United States
Dollars only. I want to first transfer us$24,000.000 [twenty four million
united States Dollars from this money into a safe foreigners account
abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting
you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person
here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved
to a foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign
a/c because the money is in US DOLLARS and the former owner of the a/c Mr
Lorin Donadio is a foreigner too, and the money can only be approved into a
foreign a/c.
However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together. I got your
contact address from my Secretary who operates computer. I am revealing
this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this
business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this
business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you on the next step to
take urgently.
Send also your private telephone and fax numbers including the full details of
the account to be used for the deposit. I want us to meet face to face to build
confidence and to sign a binding agreement that will bind us together before
transferring the money to any ccount of your choice where the fund will be
safe before we fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and investments.I
need your full co-operation to make this work fine because
the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet
up with instructions of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in
this business.
I need your strong assurance that you will never,never let me down. With my
influence and the position of the bank official, we can transfer this money to
any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance that
this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in
your country for sharing.
The bank official will destroy all documents of ransaction immediately we
receive this money leaving no trace to any place and to build confidence you
can come immediately to discuss with me face to face after which I will make
this remittance in your presence and three of us will fly to your country at
least two days ahead of the money going into the account. I will apply for
annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that
you are ready to actand receive this fund in your account. I will use my
position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this
money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant
ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of this
business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while
5% will be forexpenses both parties might have incurred during the
process of transfering.
I look forward to your earliest reply.
PLEASE REPLY ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE E-MAIL
ADDRESS:johkel@eramail.co.za
Yours,
JOHN KELLY.
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