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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: Doctor Bush Williams Bush <doctor_bush_williams@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: doctor_bush_william@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:53:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Business Partinership
My Name is Dr Bush,
Greetings sir, Here is Doctor bush. I really know that you got to be very suprise to see my letter. I just got your e mail address in the net when I was seeking for a good partiner to make this transaction with.
I want to ask you to quietly help and look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable to receive some amount of money approximately Twenty Six Million United States Dollars in a foreign account. I am in the audit department of a local bank here in South Africa and during the course of our auditing for the period ended october 2003,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the Bank in 1998 and since 2001 nobody has operated on this account. I quickly went through our data base and files, in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a (heir) hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited according to the laws of South Africa since it is close to six years of its dormancy..The owner of this account was a foreigner and owned a mining engineering firm in Cape Town.He died since 2001 and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it except my bank. It is true that the actual amount involved is 26M USD... but all I want to do first is to move out about 10M USD from the principal into a safe
foreigners account abroad, After the first transaction is successfully done, and I am sure you kept the money safely without cheating me out of it all, we shall apply for the rest of the funds... I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to any foreigner, because the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the account was a foreigner too and the money can only be approved into a foreign account... Because the management of my bank is ready to approve
this payment to any foreigner who has the correct information of this account, and with my influence and position in the bank we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that the money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from foreign exchange departments. I shall destroy all document of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place..If you can help me as I have requested, I will let you
have some part of the funds after the transfer as a gratification. We can negotiate that but then we must sign a binding agreement stating that on receipt of the funds you will not try to cheat me or run away with the money.This way, I will relax and be sure that you are with me...YOU are the first and the only one that I have
contacted for this transaction, so please reply urgently so that I will know what next to do. if you and I agree I will disclose the account information to you for application and I will make the transfer and we shall meet face to face.... I need your full co-operation to make this work out fine. Reply to E mail: doctor_bush_william@yahoo.com
Regards,
Doctor Bush William.
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