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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: joemories100@netscape.net
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:37:12 +0200
Subject: REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
Mr. JOE Mories
Pretoria,
South Africa.
Your kind attention:
REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE - STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
I Mr Joe Mories an Accountant in SOUTH AFRICAN ANGLO GOLD CO-OPERATION and I head a committee in charge of Foreign/Expatriate Contract Awards Review and Payment
Approvals (CRPAC). I came to know of your email address in my search for a reliable and low-key person to handle a
Very confidential transaction based on unflinching trust as we have not met before. This transaction involves the
Transfer of huge sum of foreign exchange (the United States Dollars) to a foreign account. There were a series of
Contracts executed by a Consortium of Multinationals in the Gold company in favor of SOUTH AFRICAN ANGLO GOLD
CO-OPERATION among which are:
(1) The expansion and rehabilitation of the ageing Gold Mine network within South Africa for crude Gold and
Downstream products distribution and evacuation - US$1 Billion
(2) Contracts for the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of four epileptic Gold mines in the country
(3) The construction of more storage facility and maintenance and servicing of old ones for Gold mine
Products Storage (Depots) - US$27 Million
(4) The construction of ANGLO GOLD Production Offshore facility.
The original value of these contracts was deliberately over-invoiced in the sum of USD Thirty-Six Million, Five
Hundred and Sixty-One Thousand ($36,561,000.00) by me as the committee leader (CRPAC) during the awards of the various contract. This sum ($36,561,000.00) has now been
approved for payment by this committee (CRPAC) and is now ready to be transferred by the South African Reserve Bank
to the account of any individual and or company which the CRPAC presents as the beneficiary, since the company that actually executed these contracts has been fully paid their
fund and the projects have been officially commissioned.
Consequently, I am willing to transfer the total amount to your account for subsequent disbursement on our behalf,
since I as civil servant and presently serving in a sensitive foreign payment approval committee (CRPAC) are
prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening or operating foreign account and or
dealing in foreign exchange in my name. Needles to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous.
In return, I have agreed to offer you 25% of the transferred sum. The balance will be used to purchase
agricultural equipment and medical drugs from your country for importation back to my country. You must however note
that this transaction is subject to the following terms and conditions:
a) Our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence
b) That you would treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality
c) That you have an unflinching trust in me, and our ability to complete all official processes with your
co-operation.
(d) That the funds would be transferred to an ordinary account which you have total control over.
Modalities have been worked out (secretly) at the highest levels of the relevant government departments involved and
the South African Anglo Gold Coperation for the immediate
transfer of funds within 14 working days subject to your
satisfaction of the above stated terms.
My assurance is that your role is risk-free. To accord this transaction the legality it deserves and for mutual
security of the fund, the whole approval procedures will be officially and legally processed with your name or the name
of any company you may nominate as the bonafide beneficiary, as in an ideal situation. It is imperative
that you bear in mind that having put in 19 years in the service of the government, I am averse to having my image
and career dented.
This matter should therefore be treated with utmost secrecy and urgency. Kindly expedite action by contacting me on the
email address above , indicating your interest in this transaction. For swift response to your reply, kindly
indicate your fax and telephone numbers clearly so that I can explain further, especially by fax. I am urgently
waiting your reply as payment to foreign contractors is usually made on quarterly basis.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. JOE Mories.
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