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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: umlazirichard2@webmail.co.za
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 22:45:41 +0200
Subject: Confidential And Assistance
FROM:Attorney Richard Umlazi
NO.19 CARLTON TOWER,
JOHANNESBURG CENTRAL,
SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: +27 73 554 6440
Email:umlazirichrd@webmail.co.za
PROPOSAL FOR BUSINESS OF MUTUAL BENEFIT
Dear,
It is my privilege to capture your names from the Internet.
My name is Attorney Richard Umlazi a legal practitioner
and
the personal Attorney to late Mr. Adams Acosta, a foreigner
who died along with his wife and his Two sons in a ghastly
motor accident along Port louis-Reduit express in August
13,
2002.All the occupants in the vehicle lost their lives.
I am convinced that it was the grace of God that made me to
locate you.My client was a very successful and accomplished
family man, who made enough fortune before his untimely
death.
Since then I had made several inquiries through Embassy
to locate any of my clients extended relative but this
exercise
has proved unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful
attempts,
I decided to trace his relatives through the Internet, to
locate
any member of his family not much progress was recorded.
My late client was an influential wealthy businessman, a
Gold magnet
(merchant) here in South Africa and he left behind a
deposit of
Five Million, two hundred thousand United States Dollar
($5,200,000.00 USD)
in his domiciliary bank account in a commercial bank here
in South Africa.
After the death of my client his bankers contacted me, as
his Attorney to
provide his next of kin who should inherit his fortune. The
board of
directors of his bank adopted a resolution and I was
mandated to provide
his next of kin for the payment of this money within 28
working days or
forfeit the money to the bank as
an abandoned property. The bankers had planned to invoke
the abandoned
property decree of 1996 to confiscate the funds after the
expiration of
the period given to me.
Despairing at the point of exhaustiveness, fortunately, I
came across your
name on my search for somebody to assist me as the next of
kin to claim
this fund. I therefore, decided to contact you with these
facts before me
because of the situation now. By virtue of my closeness to
the deceased and
his immediate family, I am very much aware of my client
financial standing
and the bank account he operates.
I have reasoned very professionally and I feel it will be
legally proper
to present you as the next of kin of my deceased client. So
that you can
be paid the funds left in his bank account, hence I
contacted you.
I seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin to
the Deceased
since you?re at an advantage as a foreigner too, so that
the proceeds of
this Bank Account valued at $5.2Million Dollars can be wire
transferred
into your account as you may nominate.
We shall both share the funds. 55% to me and 40% to you,
while 5% should
be for Expenses or Tax as your Government may require, I
shall assemble
all the necessary Legal Documents that will be used to back
up our claim.
All I require is your honest cooperation and
confidentiality to enable us
sees this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of law.
Please get in touch with me by email or on above telephone
to enable us
discuss further.
Best Regards
Barrister Richard Umlazi (Esq.)
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