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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: "amina mohammed" <aminamohammed442@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:57:35 +0200
Subject: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

MRS AMINA MOHAMMED
EMAIL:aminamohammed442@hotmail.com





URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

DEAR SIR,

I write you this little piece of letter from my office table here as to
solicit for your support and assistance regarding a very important business
investment.I therefore deem it fit to let you know who I am actually.Being a
chartered accountant by profession and the auditor general of the
Amalgamated Bank of South Africa,ABSA.There is an investment situation I had
come to realise and therefore has an intention that you would work with me
for our mutual benefits.

I and my colleague want to transfer)the sum of ELEVEN Million
Dollars(US$11,000,000.00)from ABSA bank through the name of a foreign
partner or company who will stand as the beneficiary of the fund to an
offshore account. This fund is being held at the JHB branch of ABSA bank
under Unitrust Investments in the name of Mr.Bethel Doma as the trustee of
the account. The account has been declared dormant by the bank since
Aug.2002.This sum needs to be claimed and was discovered during our last
general auditing of the bank's accounts and holdings.Our investigation and
inquiries in the transactions of Unitrust Investments revealed that the
company was registered in 1991 by Mr.Bethel Doma ,a citizen of Zimbabwe.In
recent times I discovered that Mr Doma was among the white farmers killed
during the veteran war in Zimbawe.This of course was my finding and it is my
humble self that knows it.

The money in the account was donations from private local and foreign
companies,politicians and foreign government agents secretly funding and
backing the MDC (Movement For Democratic Change)in Zimbabwe. Mr.Bethel Doma
was a member and financer of the MDC, a white minority party opposed to the
government of President Robert Mugabe and the ZANU PF.I therefore feel that
Mr Duke had used his office to divert this fund prior to his death for his
personal use. No relative of Mr.DOMA, Trustee or
Executioner has come for the fund since last year. I and the Manager
therefore decided to transfer the fund through a foreign partner or company
who will stand as the beneficiary to this fund.

We will arrange for the necessary documents that will be required in the
transaction and use our position and contacts to obtain approval and
transfer of the funds. However,as public servants
we need the assistance and co-operation of a foreign partner to achieve this
successfully. We intend to invest this fund in a Joint Partnership Company
at the conclusion of this transaction.

Note:That this transaction demands Trust,Prudence, and Strict
Confidentiality so that we dont loose our jobs or run into problems.
However,we have arranged for a very smooth and risk-free transaction if
given the assistance and co-operation.

We will offer you 25% of the total fund at the end of the transaction, 5%
has being mapped out to offset the expenses incurred while the remaining 70%
will be for my colleague and myself. Contact me immediately through this
email address including your private telehpone and fax numbers if this
proposal happens to interest you.

Best Regards

MRS AMINA MOHAMMED
AUDITOR GENERAL OF ALMALGAMETED BANK
SOUTH AFRICA (ABSA)

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