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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: "martin khumalo" <martinkhumalo65@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:23:56 +0200
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
From: Martins Khumalo
Private Tele: +27-73-266-5692
Attn:Dir/Ceo.
DIRECTOR,DELIVERY/OPERATIONS,TRANSWORLD
SECURITIES SOUTH AFRICA
RE:TRANSFER OF US$20m. FOR INVESTMENT.
I am Martins Khumalo,the director of delivery / Operations, Transworld
Security company,South Africa.Our firm is a company of high repute with
years of outstanding services to the people of Africa especially top
government officials and millitary leaders here in Africa.
I have resolved to contact you through this medium based on business
proposal that will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I have not discussed
this transaction with anybody because it is of top secret.To be explicit and
straight to the point,sometime early 1997 a reputable client of ours
deposited a consignment in our company's vault for safe keeping.And since
then our client has failed to come forward to claim his consignment,which
has accumulated a considerable amount of money in demurrage.
Consequently,in our bid to contact this client to redeem the demurrage which
his consignment had accumulated we discovered that our client was the former
President of the Federation Republic of Angola,who was shot and killed on an
armbush and was dethroned in the same year the consignment was enthrusted
into our care.Since the death of our client President JONAS SAVIMBI,none of
his benefactors has come forward to claim the consignment with us,which
means that non of his relatives or aids has any knowledge of this
consignment.
Hence out of curiosity i decided to secretly open the two boxes that our
client deposited in our vault.And to my surprise i discovered that the boxes
that were registered as treasure by our client actually contained a
considerable amount of money in United States Dollars amounting to about
US$20M. Twenty million United State Dollars.Since this development i have
been nursing plans secretly.I also found out from enquiries and the foreign
media that our late client siphoned a lot of money from his country while he
was in office as head of state.It is my conviction that the consignment in
our vault was part of the money that our client siphoned and now that he is
dead there is no trace to this money in our care.
I am now soliciting your noble assistance to assist me in transferring this
money out of South Africa to your country for immediate investment with your
assistance. I have also decided that you will generously be entitled to 25%
of the total amount.Upon my receipt of your reply confirming your
willingness to assist me ,I will immediately arrange and transfer all the
rights of ownership of this consignment to your name to facilitate your easy
clearance and transfer of the complete funds to your country for onwards
investment.
This transaction is 100% risk free.Please maintain absolute confidential on
this matter. I await your most promt response through my private e-mail
address.
Yours faithfully,
Martins Khumalo
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