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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: pezu2@galmail.co.za
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 13:31:06 +0200
Subject: WHY I WRITE YOU
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
TO:CEO.
FROM:MR PETERSON ZULU
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
PROPOSAL FOR MUTUAL BUSINESS TRANSACTION
Dear Sir/madam,
After due deliberation with my colleagues, l decided to forward to you this proposal. We want a reliable person who could assist us to transfer the sum of (US$90.5M) Ninety Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars only into his/her account.
This fund resulted from an over-invoiced bill from a contract awarded by us under the budget, allocated to my ministry and the bill was approved for payment by the concerned ministries. The contract has been executed,Commissioned and the contractor has been paid his actual cost for the contract.We are now left with the balance of US$90.5M as the over-invoiced amount,which we have deliberately over estimated for our own use. But under our protocol division, civil servants are forbidden to operate or own a foreign account. This is why l contacted you for an assistance. We have agreed that you will be entitled to:
30 PERCENT FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE.
60 PERCENT FOR ME AND MY COLLEAGUES.
10 PERCENT SET ASIDE FOR ANY EXPENSES INCURRED DURING THIS BUSINESS.
and whatever left from the 10% will be shared equally.
As you may rightly want to know l got your address from our Chamber of Commerce and Industry. I am a top official with the Dept of Works and Land Affairs,South Africa.We the officials involved in the deal have put in many years in services to our ministries. We have been exercising patience for this opportunity for so long and to most of us, this is a life time opportunity we cannot afford to miss. That is why we required a trustworthy foreigner with foreign account to transfer the total sum into his/her account for sharing and investment.This transaction is very much free from all sorts of risks.
Again,to enable us get this fund paid into your account, we have to present an international business outfit and consequent upon your agreement, we shall proceed in doing business together.
You may be required to sign the fund release authority in our national Bank or corresponding bank.
All these will only take us only few working days to transfer this fund into your account right from the day we receive the requirements.
For confidential and security of this transaction,all we require from you is your details and your private Tel/Fax for easy communication.
On receipt of this informations i shall send to you the FOREIGN PAYMENT APPLICATION FORM and the detailed information along with the terms of contract you will use to fill the Application Form and re-send back to me,so that we can commence on the process of the paper work to claim this fund [US$90.5m]in your Name.
NOTE: Your discussion regarding to this transaction should be limited because we are still in government service.Please confidentiality of this transaction is highly needed from you.
Let honesty and trust be our watch word throughout this transaction.And your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.
If you are interested,please contact me with the above Phone/Fax number and email addess.Again your private phone and fax number is highly required for easy communication.
I am waiting for your earnest reply.
Best Regards,
MR.PETERSON ZULU.
Director,Department of Works and Land affairs
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