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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: "juan louw" <juanlouw@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:07:45 +0000
Subject: Next of kin needed for claims.
Private and Confidential.
I am Mr. Juan Louw, an attorney at law. I am the personal attorney to a
foreigner from Islamic Republic of East Turkestan who worked for the
Petrochemical Support Services Company of South Africa. Hereinafter referred
to as my client.
My client died of injuries sustained in a motor accident on the 16th of
January 1999. Since then I have made several inquiries through his Embassy
to locate any of my clients extended relatives, but this has proved
unsuccessful.
I have also visited his Country in search of his relatives early this year
but still could not locate his relations. After these several unsuccessful
attempts, I decided to contact you today privately as a total stranger, with
hope that you are a reliable and trustworthy person, to help, or find a
trustworthy individual that will assist and secretly secure the money left
behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by
his Bank since the mandatory five year waiting period allowed by South
African law has expired. It is important that my contact be somebody who can
in no way be identified with me in order to avoid suspicion of insider
dealing.
Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an Account valued at about
$USD 24.5 Million Dollars has issued me an urgent notice yesterday to
provide the next of kin or have the Account confiscated within 10 working
days, hence this is why I am contacting you. Since I have been unsuccessful
in locating the relatives, I seek your consent to present you as the next of
kin of the deceased as you are also a foreigner (you just have to answer the
same name with my client) so that the proceed of this Account valued at $USD
24.5 Million Dollars [twenty four million five hundred thousand united
states dollars), minus interest, can be paid to you and then you and me can
share the money, 60% for me and 40% for you. You don’t need any experience
to do this; I have all necessary legal documents that will be used to back
up all claims we will make with your name.
All I require from you is your honest co-operation and full guarantee and
assurance that you shall hand me over my 60% in good faith and also assist
me in investing some of my share in a lucrative business in your country
because I shall come over to your country immediately it is done.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law, making it 100% risk free on
your side. Expecting to hear from you soonest by a return e-mail to
juanlouw@hotmail.com or through my fax number: +27 11 5076958, so that we
can commence action immediately.
Best regards and God bless you and your family. I await your urgent
response.
MR. JUAN LOUW.
Tel: +27 76 1146846
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