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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: santoschika zuma <santoschikazuma1@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:30:49 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
FROM:SANTOSCHIKA ZUMA
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TEL:+27-734-527-355
EMAIL:santoschikazuma1@yahoo.co.uk
ATTN: DIRECTOR / C.E.O
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Sir,
I know you will be surprised to read from me, but consider this letter as a request from a family in dare need for assistance. Firstly, I must introduce myself, I am SANTOSCHIKA ZUMA,from Zimbabwe. I am the first and only son of MR. SIMON ZUMA, I am presently residing in South Africa.
I got your contact from the South Africa Information Exchange (S.A.I.E) in Johannesburg and on behalf of my mother who is a widow MRS ESTHER ZUMA I decided to solicit for your assistance to transfer the sum of US$25(TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in your personal or company’s account. Before my father’s death he was among the few black Zimbabwean farmers and he was poisoned by the agents of the ruling government of president Robert Mugabe for his alleged support and sympathy for the Zimbabwe opposition party controlled by the white minority.
Before his death, he had taken me to Johannesburg to deposit this money to a security and finance company. This money was earmarked for purchase of new machinery and chemicals for the farms and to establish new farms in Lesotho and Swaziland.
In his will he specifically drew my attention to this sum of US$25 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) that he deposited in a safe box of a private
security and finance company here in Johannesburg,South Africa.
INFACT MY FATHER SAID IN HIS WILL AND I QUOTE:“My beloved son I wish to draw your attention to this money which I deposited in your name in a box with a
security and finance company in Johannesburg, South Africa. In case of my absence on earth cause by death, you should solicit for a reliable foreign partner to assist you to transfer this money out of South Africa for investment purpose”.
From the above, you will understand that the lives and future of my family depends on this money as much. I will be very grateful if you assist us. We are living in South Africa as asylum seekers and financial laws of South Africa does not allow asylum seeker certain rights to such huge amount of money. In view of this, I cannot invest this money in South Africa for investment purpose. For your efforts, I am preparedto offer you 25% of the total money. While 5% will be set aside for local and international expenses and 70% will be kept for my family and me.
Finally, all modalities on how the transfer will be done and concluded will be conveyed to you once we establish trust and confidence between ourselves.
treat this as very urgent and confidential.
Looking forward to your reply, You can communicate me through my phone/fax or my email address: santoschikazuma@pluno.com
Best regards,
MR.SANTOSCHIKA ZUMA
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