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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: melvinkhaya@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:05:01 +0200
Subject: ATTENTION PLEASE
FROM: DR. MELVIN KHAYA
DEPARTMENT OF MINING AND QUARRY.
EMAIL: melvinkhaya@yahoo.co.uk
DATE: 04th April 2005.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL &
URGENT.
The South African Economy has witnessed a steady
growth since the end of Apartheid. Within the
Department of Mining, Quarry and Mineral Resources
where I worked as director of Auditing and Project
Implementation, Mining and
Quarrying alone contributes 12.3% GD (R25.9Billion),
Gold made up R19.9Billion of the yearly export while
Base metals and other mineral products contribute
R6.7Billion and R5.0 Billion respectively. This figure
excludes Diamond,
which is quoted separately.
The Government has continuously strived to improve and
maintain good relationship with foreign governments
and Non-Governmental financial agencies by ensuring
payments for all debts owed to foreign contractors. As
a matter of
fact, the Government has sponsored several trade
delegations overseas to improve and attract foreign
investments to South Africa.
I write to solicit your partnership in a matter I
believe will be of mutual benefit to us. This would
require your trust and capability to work with me with
your genuine cooperation according to instructions. I
and two other
colleagues involved in this transaction are still in
active government service with the Ministry of Mines &
Mineral Resources and we are in dire need of a foreign
partner to assist us in the receipt and investment of
US$15,500,000.00
(Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars).
The key issue is the transfer of the said sum to an
account that will be provided by you for this purpose
for safekeeping and subsequent investment in a
profitable venture. We are ready to go into an
agreement with you regarding your percentage in this
transaction. It does not matter whether or not you
own a company, we shall guide you on what to do. The
basis will be that a major company won a contract and
subcontracted it to you. More often, big trading
companies and firms of unrelated fields win contracts
and subcontract to more specialized firms for
execution.
We shall follow strictly all the legal procedures
entailed in our laws and international laws in
transferring the funds to you. The source of the funds
is legitimate and authoritative; our caucus extends
from my Department to the
Ministry of Finance. It may interest you to know that
a few years ago, a similar transaction was carried out
with one Mr. Patrice Miller, The President of Crane
International Trading Corporation, at No. 135, East
57th Street, 28th Floor, New York, 10022,with
Telephone No. (212) 308-7788 and Telex No.
6731680.After the agreement between the partners, in
which he was to take 15% of the money, which was duly
transferred into his account only to be disappointed
on arrival in New York as we were reliably informed
that Mr. Patrice Miller was no longer on that address,
while his Telephone and Telex
Numbers had been changed that is how we lost US$21.43M
to Mr. Patrice Miller.
This time around we need a more reliable and
trustworthy person or a reputable company to do
business with, hence this letter to you. If you are
interested and can prove yourself to be trustworthy
then we can do this transaction with you.
I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will
not disappoint me. Should you be willing to assist
positively with a common goal, endeavor to contact me
immediately through my email address above.
I await in anticipation your fullest co-operation.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Melvin Khaya
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