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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: "james thobe" <jamesthobe_3@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:31:14 +0200
Subject: STRICTLY AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS ASSISTANT
FROM:MR.JAMES THOBE
85 MONUMENT ROAD
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA
ATTN DIRECTOR/C.E.O
RE:TRANSFER OF($26,000.000.00 USD}TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS
We want to transfer ($26,000.000.00 USD) Twenty six million United States
Dollars from a Prime Bank here in South Africa to oversea account. First,I
must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by
virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and
haveconfidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of
this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the
said amount into your safe account for unward investment. You can either
provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank
account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for
this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never
let me down either now or in future.
I am the Auditor general and the personal account officer to a great late
INDUSTRIALIST who has an account in one of the prime banks here in South
Africa. The account was opened in 1996 and he died in 1998 without a written
or oral WILL and since 1998 nobody has operated on this
account again hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money
out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing since the bank has been sold
on Wed, 19 Mar 2003 to another bank and the management of the bank is now
ready to release the fund to any foreigner who has the correct information
of the account before fully handing over the management to the new
bank.[Search;http://business.iafrica.com/news/220677.htm].
The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about
this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary
and until his death he was the manager of the company.My investigation
through the National immigration department proved to me as well that
he was single as at the point of his entry into the Republic of South
Africa.
We will start the first transfer with Six million [$6,000.000]. Upon
successful transfer without any
disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the
remaining balance of 20 million to your account.
The total amount involved is Twenty six million United States Dollars only
[$26,000.000.00]. I want to first transfer $6,000.000.00 [Six million United
States Dollar] from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before
the rest. But I don't know any foreigner,I am only contacting you as a
foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, but
can only be approved to any foreigner who has the correct information of the
account which I will provide to you.
On confirmation of your willingness to receive this fund in your account, I
will involve my confidant lawyer who is a government accredited attorney to
the bank to represent you in various offices here to secure all the relevant
documents in your name required to make the transfer a success. I therefore
assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and trouble free to both
parties.
However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together when we meet
face to face after the first transfer of $6 Million before transferring the
second part of $20 Million. I am revealing this to you with believe that you
will never let me down in this business. You are the first and the only
person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so
that I will inform you the next step to take urgently.
Send me full details of the account to be used for this transfer, including
your direct telephone and fax numbers so that we can have a heart to heart
discussion. I want us to meet face to face to build confidence and to sign a
binding agreement that will bind us together immediately after the first
transfer before we fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and
investments.
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management
is ready to approve this Payment to any foreigner who has correct
information of this account, which I will give to you upon your Positive
response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up
with instruction of a key Bank official who is deeply involved with me in
this business. I need your strong assurance that you will Never, never let
me down.
With my position and influence in the bank, the money can be transferred to
any foreigner's reliable account that you can provide with assurance that
this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for
sharing. The bank official Will destroy all documents of transaction
immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place and to build
confidence.
You can call me for heart to heart discussion through my private satellite
phone which I secured for the security and safety of this business as you
know that this business is confidential.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply through my private
emailaddress:{jamesthobe_3@hotmail.com }
Best Regards,
MR.JAMES THOBE.
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