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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: "Confidential Request" <thambo-chantal@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: chantal_thambo@mixmail.com
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:33:17 +0100
Subject: Confidential Request.
Mrs.Chantal Thambo
Email:chantal_thambo@mixmail.com
Dakar Senegal.
Good Day,
With warm hearts I offer you my greetings and friendship.I hope this letter
meets you in good time. It will be surprising to you to receive this proposal
from me since you do not know me personally.However, I am sincerely seeking
your confidence in this transaction, which I propose with my free mind and
as a person of integrity.My name is Mrs. Chantal Thambo, the wife of late
Mr. Zindi Thambo, a farmer from Zimbabwe who was murdered in a land dispute.
As led by my instinct, I decided to contact you through email after searching
for contacts via the Internet. It is the only means I can contact anybody
since I am cutting off ties with Zimbabwe for now. I apologize if this is
not acceptable to you.
The purpose of this letter is to seek your able assistance in a business
venture. Due to the land and political problems in Zimbabwe and as a result
of President Robert Mugabe's introduction of new Land Act Reform wholly affecting
the rich white farmers and the few rich black farmers, all white farmers
were asked to surrender their farms to the government for re-distribution,in
fact to his political party members and my late husband though black was
the treasury of the Commercial Farmers Union(CFU)and a strong member of an
opposition party that did not support Mr.Mugabe's policies.
President Robert Mugabe then ordered his party members and the police under
his pay row to invade my husband's farm.They killed my husband and took away
a lot of items from his farm. After the death of my husband, The Reverend
Father of our church handed over an envelop which contains a "will" and some
other documents with instructions from my husband that I and my children
should leave Zimbabwe in case anything happen to him. Also found in the envelop
was a deposit slip - confirming a cash deposit totaling Ten million United
States dollars [US$10m]kept in a finance/security firm in Europe.
The money deposited with this finance/security firm was to be used for the
purchase of new machines, chemicals and establishment of new farms. This
violent and barbaric act by Mr.Mugabe has since led to the death of many
innocent lives.
I was continually threatened after my husband died,I resisted for a while,
but when the danger became unbearable,I and my children fled Zimbabwe with
the help of my husband's close friend from UK he is also a farmer who was
living in Zimbabwe but left with his family following this ugly development.
I have tried to reach him through the contact he gave me but all to no avail.
I am currently staying in Dakar Senegal with my children In fact my decision
of coming here to seek asylum is because my late husband once told me that
Senegal is a peacefull country .I need to claim and transfer this deposit
from the Finance/security firm in Europe for investment purposes.
This is why I am seeking a genuine honest and reliable partner, who will
be so kind to provide an account where the fund can be transferred into.
You have to understand that this decision to confide in you is a very big
and brave one, and it entrusts my children's future in your hands.If you
accept to assist me, all I need from you is to assist with arrangements
of transferring this deposit to your country. The finance/security firm holding
the deposit will be legally informed of you representing me and the contact
of the finance firm will be forwarded to you. For your assistance, I have
two options for you. Firstly you can choose to have 15% of the fund or go
into partnership with me for the proper profitable investment of the money
in your country. Whichever option you want, please do notify me in your reply.
Please,I would want you to maintain absolute secrecy for the purpose of this
transaction. I look forward to your reply and co-operation.
Sincerely,
Mrs.Chantal Thambo
___________________________________________________________
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