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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: Mr. Bothwel Moyo<frankezeh@tatanova.com>
Date:
Subject: 26/04/2005
From: Mr. Bothwel Moyo
No. 45 Rivonia Road
Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
Dear Sir,
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT.
Before I go further I will like to introduce myself, I am Mr. Bothwel
Moyo, a 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 (SEPC) 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
Executive Accountant and with the cooperation of four other top officials, we
have in our possession as overdue payment bills totaling ($18,500,000.00
(Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which we want to
transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a foreign
company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable foreign
non-company account to receive such funds. 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 in the whole transaction.
This amount US$18.5M 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 Telegraphic
Transfer (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
15% of the US$18.5 Million, 80% 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 above my e-mail address,
whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable
me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal I want to
assure you that my partners and myself 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. I wait in
anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Bothwel Moyo
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