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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: "ROSE ZUMA" <mrsrosyzuma@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 08:49:42 +0000
Subject: FROM MR ROSE/URGENT CALL
Dear Sir,
A family friend in the diplomatic corp., who for reasons of his present
Assignation in government will prefer to remain anonymous, recommended you
to me. My name is Mrs. Rose Zuma. My husband Dr Lucas Zuma, an intellectual
and seasoned administrator was the chairman of Zimbabwe's land reform
committee until last year when one of his strong member was murdered by
members of the war veteran association who are being sponsored by the
government of Dr Robert Mugabe to forcibly take over white owned farms.
My husband was murdered because he believed in due process and the right of
others and this was evident in the manner in which he handled the issue of
land reforms in Zimbabwe which totally disagreed with the agenda as set out
by Dr Robert Mugabe who wanted to exploit the issue of land reform to
perpetuate himself in office even though he has been ruling Zimbabwe for so
long.
The original mandate under which the land reform committee was set up was to
liaise between government and white farmers where each farmer will be
expected to release a few thousand hectares not exceeding twenty percent of
land holdings to government for which the farmer will be paid the market
value. The land acquired from this process will then be redistributed to
small farmers to cultivate. Everybody agreed that this was a laudable
concept that
they failed to see was Dr Mugabe's hidden agenda to perpetuate himself in
office.
Dr Mugabe who was under pressure not to run for office again saw the land
reform situation as a prime weapon to exploit in building support for
himself. So rather than follow the original agenda as set out for the land
reform committee, Dr Robert Mugabe covertly organized and financed a group
of hoodlums who call themselves war veterans to attack white farmers and
forcibly take over their farms.
Publicly the president showed his support for these war veterans and before
long the situation degenerated to the extent hundred of farms were now being
forcibly occupied by thousands of poor folk who see it as
their chance to own their own piece of land. What we have now is a crisis
that has almost brought the economy of Zimbabwe to its knees. Please and
threat from the international community fell on deaf ears and as a result
foreign investment is almost zero.
This was what prompted my husband to spearhead a serious opposition to Dr
Mugabe's selfish agenda. He resigned his chairmanship of the land reform
committee and publicly denounced the illegal occupation of white owned
farms. Please pardon me for bordering you with this.
My husband and David Stephen were among the people that was abducted,
savagely assaulted and brutally murdered by the so-called war veterans.
During and after his burial I received death threats and the last straw was
when they tried to burn my house down with my children and I sleeping
inside. After this incident, my children and I escaped to South Africa where
my husband had deposited the sum of $15.5million with a security company,
which he had planned to use in financing his opposition to the destructive
agenda of Dr Mugabe.
Ordinarily being his next of kin and heir, the money should be released to
me but my status as a refugee makes this impossible, as I do not own a bank
account to which the money could be remitted into. I will be very much happy
if you can assist us to receive this money in your account, please do not be
afraid as the money belongs to my family and I have all the depository
documents which is on my son name. If you can receive this money into your
account on my behalf and help oversee its investment in profitable stocks
and shares. This of course will be for reasonable commission. If you are
willing to help us, please contact my son Mr. Sipho Zuma, who will be
working directly with you on his phone number 27-73-415-3787 or e-mail him
on siphozuma@sify.com He will give you more information on our
arrangements. Looking forward to meeting with you as soon as arrangements is
completed.
Best Regards
Mrs. Rose Zuma.
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