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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: "Mr Malaki Kodabi" <frzeen2002@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mbigmmm@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:53:39 +0100
Subject: [ PLS REPLY SOON]
My name MALAKI KODABI, the eldest son of Dr. ENAGUA
KODABI, from Zimbabwe. This letter might come as a
surprise to you about where I got your contact address
and how I knew you. I got your address from the net,
and i decided to contact you for an assistant, which I
do hope you will take this matter into consideration.
During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe
from the supporters of our President Robert Mugabe to
claim all the white-owned farms for his party members
and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to
surrender all their farms to his party members and his
followers. My father was one of the biggest farmers in
our country and because he strongly opposed Mugabe's
ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded my father's farm
and burnt everything in the farm, killing my father
and made away with a lot of items in my father's farm.
Before his death, my father had deposited with one
Security Company in SOUTH AFRICA, the sum of US$15.5
(Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars). This was money he planned to use in buying
new machinery and to set up a new farm in Swaziland.
After the death of my father, l decided to escape to
Spain because of continued harassment from Mugabe and
his supporters. As the senior man in the Family, l
decided to contact you to assist me since I was able
to moved this money out of SOUTH AFRICA to Spain for
safe keeping although the courier comapny were not
aware of the content of the suite case because it was
convey as personal valuable goods, Presently the Fund
is already in Spain, while I need to seek political
asylum to secure my staying here and we are not
allowed to operate any bank account within Spain. For
your role in this transaction, me and my family have
agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum for your
assistance, 5% will be mapped out for any expenses
that may be incurred in the course of this transaction
and 70% will be for me and my family to invest in your
country. All I want you to do is to help me finish
this transaction and the same time help me to invest
the money into a lucrative business in your country
Please get back to me if you can be of assistance and
l would want our correspondence to be via email as
most phone lines of asylums seekers are presently
bugged by the Government. l expect your
confidentiality and your prompt respond to this email
so as to proceed. Note that this transaction is 100%
risk free. You should however treat this transaction
with absolute confidentiality.please forward your
phone/fax numbers and your address to my private Email
address at:mbigmmm@yahoo.com Thanks and God bless.
Best regards, MR. MALAKI KODABI
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