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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: johnsonnthabang@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:48:33 +0200
Subject: URGENT PLEASE: Lee
MR.WILLIAM JOHNSON/ MRS.THERESA JOHNSON
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
PHONE-+0027-83-695-5047
You may be surprise to receive this letter from me since you do not know me personally.First,let me introduce myself,I am MR.WILLIAM JOHNSON,the son of MR.JOHNSON PEDRO ,who was recently murdered in the land dispute in ZIMBABWE.I got your contact through my
intensive internet search here in Johannesburg when i was making inquiries of investment in your
country,then i decided to write you directly. Before the death of my father,he had taken me to Johannesburg to deposit the sum of US$19.520 Million[NINETEEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS]in one of the private security companies as if
he foresaw the looming danger in ZIMBABWE.The money was deposited in a box as gem stones to avoid much dumurrage from the security company and also to keep every eye off from knowing that the box content is physical cash.
This amount was meant for the purchase of new machines and farm land in SWAZILAND, but unfortunately land dispute and problems from our President Mr. Robert Mugabe took over in Zimbabwe.This land problem came when ZIMBABWEAN president MR. ROBERT MUGABE introduced
a new land act reform,which affected the rich white farmers and some few black farmers.
This resulted in killing and mob actions by the Zimbabwean war veterans and some lunatics in the
society.Infact a lot of people were killed which my father was one of them because of this land reform act.I am afraid of establishing here in South Africa for the fear of going through the same experience in future since both countries have similar political history.Moreover,The South African foreign exchange policy does not allow such investment for an asylum seeker.
As a business man whom i have to entrust my future and that of my family in his hand,I must let you know that this transaction is risk free.If you accept to assist me and my family,all i want you to do for me is to arrange and come to Johannesburg South Africa,so that you can open a non resident Dollar Bank account which will aid us in transfering the money into any account
you will nominate overseas,and to enable us see face to face and discuss investment opportunities.
This money i intend to use for investment.I have two options for you,first,you choose to have certain percentage of the money for nominating your account for this transaction, or you can go into partnership with our family for the proper investment of the money in your country,which ever the option you want,be free to notify me.
I have also mapped out 6% of this money for all kinds of expense incured in the process of this transaction, If you do not prefer a partnership,i am willing to give you 18% of the money while the remaining 76%will be for my investment in your country.
Contact us with the above telephone numbers or with our e-mail address,while you maintain the absolute secrecy and confidentiality required in this transaction,as we want to keep everything secret because bad people are everywhere who might be jealous on hearing that such amount of money of money is coming into your account, please maintain the secrecy and confidentiality as these funds remains our only surviving hope and future.
yours faithfully,
WILLIAM JOHNSON[MR]/MRS.THERESA JOHNSON
(For the family).
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