fighting spam and scams on the Internet
|
Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days |
 |
|
|
joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet |
|
|
|
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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
Click here to report a problem with this page.
Fraud email example:
From: paulmabuza2000@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:00:06 +0200
Subject: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
FROM DR PAUL MABUZA
CHIEF ACCOUNTANT AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK OF
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
PRIVATE NUMBER: 27-83-958-7993
PRIVATE EMAIL: paulmabuza2000@yahoo.com
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
ATTN: DIRECTOR/CEO
I am DR PAUL MABUZA (FCAA), the chief accountant of African Development bank
(ADB). There is an account open in thisbank in 2001 and since 2004 nobody
has operated on this account again.
After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do
not remit this money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing. The
owner of this account is Mr. Smith B. Andreas, a foreigner, and a miner at
Kruger Gold Company, a Geologist by profession that went for holiday with
his family to Thailand and it happends that he was one of the victims that
died inside TSUNAMI in THAILAND with his family on December 2004.No other
person knows this account or anything concerning it, the account has no
other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that this
company does not know anything about this account and the money involved is
Thirty Six Million United States Dollars (US$ 36 Million). I want us to
first transfer US$ 16 Million from this money into your safe overseas bank
account before the rest.
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign
account because the money is in United States Dollars and the former owner
Mr. Smith B. Andreas is a foreigner too. I know that this message will come
to you as surprise as we don;t know ourselves before.But be sure that it is
real and a genuine business. I only got your contact information from my
secretary who operates computer; with believe in God that you will never let
me down in this business, considering my position as a public servant.
You are the only person that I have contacted in this business; so please
reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take
immediately.Send also your private telephone and fax numbers including the
full details of your account to be used for the deposit.
Meanwhile, I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner
with foreign account and foreign beneficiary. I need your full co-operation
to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this
payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which
I will give to you as soon as you indicate your sincerity to co-operate with
me, and capability to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust
according to my instruction and advice for our mutual benefit because this
opportunity may never come again in my life.
I need a truthful and God fearing person in this business because I don;t
want to make a mistake so I need your strong assurance and trust. With my
position in the office I don;t want anything that will jeopardize my job so
I advice that we should make secrecy and confidentiality our primary working
condition, bearing in mind that I am a public servant.
I will also use my position and influence to effect legal approvals and
onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance
forms of the ministries and foreign exchange department. At the conclusion
of this business, you will be giving 35%
of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both
parties might have incurred during the process of the transfer. I look
forward to your earliest reply.
Yours sincerely,
DR PAUL MABUZA
(CHIEF ACCOUNTANT ADB SA.)
Anti-fraud resources: