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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: willashi134@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:07:02 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS ASSISTANCE/CONFIDENTIAL
TEL/FAX: 00 27 73 225 1470
E-Mail: willashi134@yahoo.com
BUSINESS ASSISTANCE/CONFIDENTIAL
ATTN: GENERIAL MARNIGER.
Dear Sir,
This letter is not intended to cause you any embarrassment in what ever form rather is in good faith from a family in dear need of assistance following knowledge of your high repute and trustworthiness, is born of the difficulty situation that our family has been engulfed in since our father and bread winner of our family was forced to relinquish his position.
My name is ASHI WILSON, the elder son of ASHI J. A of ZIMBABWE. I got your contact South Africa Trade Journal here in search for reliable company /personal account that can assist us in transferring this money out of South Africa. During the war against farmers in Zimbabwe from the support of our president Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party member and his followers, he ordered all white farmers in our country and because we did not support Mugabe's ideas, Mugabe supporters invaded my father's farms and burnt everything in the farm, killing my father and took everything he had. Before his death, he had deposited with one security company in Johannesburg, South Africa the sum $21.5M.USD (Twenty One Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars).
After the death of our father, we decided to move to the Republic of South Africa where he had deposited the money in the security company as valuables. It is in this regards that I, my mother and my two sisters decided to contact overseas firm and companies that will assist us to move this money out of South Africa because we are asylum seekers and we are not allowed to operate any bank account within South Africa.
We have agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum for your assistance, 5% will be mapped out for all expenses made during the transaction; while the rest will be for my family investment in your country. Please kindly contact me with the above contact information for easy communication.
Note that this business is risk free and 100% confidential. More so, furnish me with your private phone and fax numbers for us to reach each other when necessary.
Thanks and God bless.
Best regards,
ASHI WILSON.
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