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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: "Engr.Maxwell Tambo" <engrtambo@workmail.co.za> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:48:27 +0200
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT
Dear Sir,
I am Engr.Maxwell Tambo Native of Cape Town in South Africa and
I am an Executive Accountant with the South Africa
Department of Mining & Natural Resources. First and
foremost, I apologized using this medium to reach you for a
transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this
medium.
Be informed that a member of the South Africa Export
Promotion Council (SAEPC) who was at the Government
delegation to your country during a trade exhibition gave
your enviable credentials/particulars to me. I have decided
to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the
execution of the deal described hereunder for the benefit
of all parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret
because of the nature of this transaction.
Within the Department of Mining & Natural Resources where I
work as an director and with the cooperation of four other
top officials, we have in our possession as overdue payment
bills totaling Ninteen Million, One Hundred Thousand united
states dollars (US$26,500,000.00) which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and
co-operation of a foreign company/individual to receive the
said fund on our behalf into a reliable company/individual
account depending on your convenience.
More so, we are handicapped in the circumstances, as the
South Africa Civil Service Code of Conduct does not allow
us to operate offshore account hence your importance the
whole transaction.This amount (US$26.5m) represents the
balance of the total contract value executed
on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm,
which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately. Though
the actual contract cost have been paid to the original
contractor, leaving the balance in the tune of the said
amount which we have in principles gotten approval to remit
by Key Tested Telegraphic Transfer (K.T.T) to any foreign
bank account you will provide by filing in an application
through the Justice Ministry here in South Africa for the
transfer of rights and privileges of the former contractor
to you.
I have the authority of my partners involved to propose
that should you be willing to assist us in the transaction,
your share of the sum will be 25% of the US$26.5 million,
70% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses.
The business itself is 100% safe, on your part provided you
treat it with utmost secrecy and 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 me. Endeavor to contact me immediately
through my secured email address:-engrtambo@workmail.co.za
whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are
not, it will enable me contact other foreign partner with
recommendation to carry out this deal. I want to assure you
that myself and my partners 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 comprehend with any
form of exposure as we are still in active Government
Service and remember once again that time is of the essence
in this business.
Kindly establish your response directly by email. We wait
in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Engr.Maxwell Tambo
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