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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: michaelkhumalo@webmail.co.za
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:57:42 +0200
Subject: Hello
Mr.Michael Khumalo,
ABSA Bank Limited,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dear Sir,
I am Mr.Michael Khumalo, manager of bills/exchange at the
foreign remittance department of ABSA Bank. In my
department, we
discovered an abandoned sum of US$14,700,000.00(Fourteen
Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only)
in an account that belonged to one of our foreign customers
who died along with his entire family, on November
1996, in a ghastly plane crash,and he happened to be a
Foreigner. Since we got the information about his death, we
have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and claim
his money
because we can not release it unless somebody applied for
it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our
banking guidelines. Unfortunately, nobody has come forward
to claim this money.
It is based on this that some officials in my department
and I have decided to establish a cordial business
relationship
with you, hence by contacting you. We want you to present
yourself as the next of kin through your relation with the
deceased, so that the funds can be remitted into your
account.
Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the
government account as unclaimed bills. The banking law and
guidelines here
stipulates that any account abandoned or is dormant for a
period of years, is deemed closed and all money contained
therein forfeited to the government treasury account.
Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be
transferred into the government account as an unclaimed
fund on or before the end of this financial quarterof 2005,
when nobody come forward to lay claims. The reason for
requesting you to
present yourself as next of kin, is occasioned by, the fact
that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner, and we have
access to his detailed bio data which you will hold as a
weapon to present yourself as the next of kin.
The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the
money into your account, shall be 70% to my colleagues and
I, for the
role you will be expected to play in this deal, we have
agreed to give you 25% of the total sum and 5% for the
expenses we are going to encounter by the two parties in
the course of this transaction. Therefore, you are expected
to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest
to participate in this business. After receiving your
reply, you will be communicated to with the exact steps to
take.
I expect your urgent response through my email address
:michaelkhumalo@702mail.co.za .And I shall contact you for
further discussion on this matter,to enable us conclude
this transaction urgently without any delay or hitch.
Please treat this business proposal as strictly
confidential for security reasons considering my official
position in ABSA Bank.
Personal Regards,
Michael Khumalo
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