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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: "Andrew Mboweni" <andrew_mboweni@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:08:53 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED.
INVITATION FOR PARTNERSHIP.
Dear Friend,
With due respect, trust and humility, I write to you this proposal, which I
believe would be of great interest to you. I find your contact while I was
doing a private research on the internet for a reliable and capable foreign
partner that will assist my family and I to transfer fund to his/her
personal or private account and for investment purpose. I am Mr. Andrew
Mboweni the first son of Late Mr. Samuel Mboweni, who was the "Chairman" of
the farmers? Co-operation in Zimbabwe. It will be necessary to inform you
that the {US$20.5M} Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand united states
dollars) intended for penalization of the investments are presently in the
custody of a private security company here in Accra Ghana, which we require
to transfer out of Accra Ghana immediately for the said investment purposes.
You may have heard of the present crisis in Zimbabwe orchestrated by the
unprecedented land use act of the government of Robert Mugabe, in which this
government has arbitrarily reclaimed and acquired all farmlands owned by the
white farmers in the country.
This has caused a historical displacement of the white folks who are known
to be the country's main farmers. The ensuing struggles and strife have
brought about the killing and imprisonment of thousands of these white farm
owners by the ruthless government forces designated to enforce this new
order. My Father, in his good will, joined the international community in
condemning and speaking out against this uncivilized and bizarre policy of
Robert Mugabe’s government. As a result of my father's firm and upright
position on this matter, a group of people popularly known as hired killer
and also suspected to be government sympathizers attached and killed my
father in cold blood. Seeing that the entire Mboweni's family was in serious
threat of extinction, So we immediately fled from Zimbabwe to Accra Ghana,
where we have sojourned ever since as refugee under the United Nations.
Prior however, to my father's untimely death he had sensing the rising
hostilities, sold some of his farm lands including those of some of his
white farmer associates who had transferred ownership of their farm lands to
my father to forestall the government acquiring them.
My father was able sent the proceeds {US$20.5m} Twenty million Five Hundred
Thousand United States dollars from sales of the farmlands to Accra Ghana.
And deposited it in a metal box with Standard security company here in Accra
for safe keeping as he stated. We are presently in Accra as Refugee (Asylum
Seekers) we seek for your help and ready to come in terms on what you will
want my family to offer you for your assistance in this transaction, for the
inconveniences this we cost you and for accepting to assist us, contact me
on my phone number +233244134323 indicating your interest in this
transaction, on receiving of your acceptance, I and my family will forward
you more clarification on the modalities needed for smooth successful
completion of this transaction. we have our lawyer here who will help you
prepared some of the document you will use to apply for these funds. It is
equally important to state here that considering the nature of this
transaction, we will required that it is handled most secretly, I anticipate
your quick response.
Best regard,
Mr. Andrew Mboweni.
(For and On behalf of my family)
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