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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: BENSON OWEN <lana300_2@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:36:18 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Very Important Business..
Zulberg Closeoff
Ernest Oppenheimer
Road Bruma Lake,
Johannesburg,2196
South Africa.
PHONE: +874-763593730
+870-763593730
DEAR SIR,
( RE: TRANSFER OF ($125,000.000.00 USD)
ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
I want to transfer ($125,000.000.00 USD) One Hundred &
Twenty five million United States Dollars from a
Prime Bank here in South Africa to an oversea account.
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in
this transaction. This is by virtue of it's nature as
being utterly confidential. I am sure and have
confidence of your ability and reliability to
prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude.
I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the
said amount into your safe account for unward
investment.You can either provide us with an existing
account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to
receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest
to me till the end of this important business trusting
in you and believing that you will never let me down
either now or in future.
I am the personal account officer to the great late
INDUSTRIALIST who has an account in one of the top
banks here in South Africa. The account was opened in
1998 and he died in 2003 without a written or oral
WILL and since 2003 nobody has operated on this
account again hence the money is floating and if I do
not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited
for nothing.
The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other
person knows about this account or anything concerning
it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his
death he was the manager of the company.My
investigation through the National immigration
department proved to me as well that he was single as
at the time of his entry into the Republic of South
Africa. The amount in this account is USD$125 Million
( One Hundred & Twenty five Million United States
Dollars ) only.
As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this
fund abroad for investment. Your assistance as a
foreigner is necessary because the management of the
bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct
information to this account which I will give to you
immediately, if you are interested to do this business
with me.There is no risk in this business.
With my position and my personal contact with the
manager of the bank, the money can be transferred to
any account you can provide with assurance that this
money will be intact pending our physical arrival in
your country for sharing.
We will start the first transfer with Twenty five
million [$25,000.000]. Upon successful transfer
without any disappointment from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of
$100 Million to your account. I am only contacting
you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to a local person here, but can only be
approved to any foreigner who has the correct
information of the account which I will provide for
you.
So you should provide me with your correct account
detail where you will like the fund to be transferred
or you can set up a new account for the transfer even
an empty account is ok. At the conclussion of the
transfer you will take 35%,5% will be for any expenses
both parties incurred in the process of this business
and the remaining 60% will be for me. As soon as I
hear from you and upon your strong assurance that you
will not let me down once the fund goes into your
account I will then start the processing of the
transfer of the fund to your account without further
delay.
Contact me urgently via telephone or email for further
details.
Thanks.
Yours Faithfully,
Benson Owen.
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