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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: "larry smith" <larrysmith000@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 12:15:58 +0200
Subject: OFFSHORE CONSULTANCY
Dear Friend,
OFFSHORE CONSULTANCY
I am writing you this mail which I hope will meet you in
excellent health. I write it in some urgency, expressly to
you because an old acquaintance once mentioned in passing
that you and two others are the only three people he could
trust in a third party transaction.
I am Mr.LARRY SMITH, Chief Project Officer for Sasol
Oil South Africa. I need you to assist my colleague and
myself in a transaction.
Some time ago the Chief Financial Officer of my parastatal
and I facilitated the tender/bid of an old friend of mine
Mr. ENID MURIEL COETZEE to replace and network
some of our old pipelines and underground tanks. And we
inflated the contract sum, which was to be US$5 Million to
the sum of US$28 Million.
Everything went well, we paid him the sum of US$5 million
and he executed the contract, after which a first payment
of US$4 Million was made to him on completion with a
balance of US$19million left to be paid.
Unfortunately Mr. Coetzee died leaving no heir or surviving
relative and we had a secret sharing arrangement with him
regarding the last payment of US$19million.
The only way we can get our share now is if we pay the
money which requires only my instruction and the
CFO's endorsement to his company name but to a
different account (yours) and change the information in his
company MOU with us and other data to include you as his
offshore consultant and partner, and his sole surviving
relative and next of kin.
If you accept to assist us we shall change the relevant
documentation and instruct our bankers through my colleague
the CFO to make further payments to your account as per the
documents we shall supply.
When the US$19million is paid to you. You will keep
US$6Million and transferUS$13 million to our private
accounts, which we shall give you as, was the original plan
with Mr. Coetzee.
Please respond soonest to indicate if you
will accept to assist us.
Sincerely,
Mr.LARRY SMITH.
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