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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: ramaposah@zwallet.com
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:55:46 +0200
Subject: AWAITING YOUR REPLY
Dear Friend,
This letter might surprise you because we have meet neither in person nor by correspondence, but I believe that it takes just one day to meet or know someone either physically or through correspondence made. I am Mr. Douglas Ramaposah, a native of Petersburg in South Africa, and I am the Director of Project Implementation with the South Africa Department of Mining & Mineral Resources. First and foremost I apologized using this medium to reach you for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature of this transaction.
Within the Department of Mining & Mineral Resources where I work with the cooperation of four other top officials, we have in our possession as overdue payment bills totalling Nine Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$9,800,000) which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a foreign company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable foreign company/individual account. More so, we are handicapped in the circumstances, since we as civil servants, we are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) here in South Africa from opening or operating foreign account in our names.
This amount of US$9.8M represents the balance of the total contract value executed for my of my Department by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract cost have been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount which we have in principles gotten approval to remit by Telegraphic Transfer (T.T) to any foreign bank account you will provide.
This Transaction itself is 100% risk free and safe on your part provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Therefore it requires a high level of secrecy, and confidentiality. Also your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction. I want to assure you that my partners and myself are in a position to make the payment of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong assurance and guarantee that our share of the funds will be secured when transferred to you, and please remember to treat this matter as very confidential matter, because we will not comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active Government Service. Do note that all modalities have been perfected to ensure a hitch free transfer of these funds and on receipt of your sincere desire to assist us, we will swing into full action and we hope to complete the transfer of the funds within 14 working days with your assistance and!
total commitment.
However it is quite necessary that these facts be kept as confidential as possible for its successful completion. On grounds that you agree to do this business with me, I will let you know the benefiting conditions of your assistance in my next correspondence. Should you be interested in my proposal, Do contact me immediately through my private Email address: (ramaposah1@yahoo.co.in) to first open communication with you before elaborating further on what need to be done. More so, to commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate by a return Email and enclose your private contact telephone and fax numbers, full names, address to enable us communicate further.
Please at this point in time it is important that I hint on the issue of utmost confidentiality and I hope you will agree with me that this is the best approach for now until we are able to establish a more concrete relationship. Please do reply me whether or not you are interested in this deal, If you are not, it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this transaction. I shall expect an immediate reply from you.
Yours Sincerely,
Douglas Ramaposah
Kindly reply through this my Private Email address: ramaposah@yahoo.co.in
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