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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: jtebego@netscape.net
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 01:23:06 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Business relationship & Partnership
PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
ENGR.JAMES TEBEGO
PRETORIA
SOUTH AFRICA.
EMAIL: tebego1@excite.com
FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION.
It is my great pleasure to write you this letter on behalf of my
colleagues. I got your information from a personal search in the internet
business index. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you
in execution of a deal hereunder for the benefit of all parties, and hope
you will keep it confidential because of the nature of this business.
Within the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources where I work as a
Director of Project Implementation, and with co-operation of four other top
officials, we have in our possession, an overdue payment in US funds. The
said funds represent certain percentage of the contract value executed on
behalf of my Ministry by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials
over-invoiced to the amount of US$14,600,000.00 (Fourteen Million, Six
Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars). Though the actual contract cost has been paid to
the original contractor, leaving the excess balance unclaimed.
Since the present elected Government is determined to pay foreign
contractors all debts owed, so as to maintain good relations with foreign
governments and non-governmental financial agencies. As a result we
included ours bills for approvals with the co-operation of some officials
at the Department of Finance and the Reserve Bank of South Africa (RBSA).
We are seeking your assistance as the beneficiary of the unclaimed funds,
since we are not allowed to operate a foreign account.
I have the authority of my colleagues involved to propose that, should you
be willing to assist us in this transaction your share as compensation will
be 25% while my colleagues and I receive 70%, and the balance of 5% for
taxes and miscellaneous expenses incurred.
It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of
the nature described here. The assumption is that your company won the
major contract and subcontracted it to other companies. More often than
not, big trading companies and firms of unrelated fields wins major
contracts and subcontract to more specialized firms for execution.
I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint
me. Endeavor to contact me immediately through my above stated e-mail
address above,to indicate 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.It
is important
that you treat this matter with utmost CONFIDENTIALITY as any form of
exposure will negatively affect us since we are still in active Government
Service.
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 us.
Kindly notify me by email for further details, upon your acceptance of this
proposal.
Regards,
Engr. James Tebego.
PLEASE DO QUOTE REFERENCE (JT/01)
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