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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: "micheal wallins" <micheal_wally@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:14:11 +0200
Subject: PLEASE GIVE THIS BUSINESS PROPOSAL URGENT ATTENTION
JAHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA
PHONE: +27 835048132
Email: micheal_wally@hotmail.com
LETTER OF ASSISTANCE FROM A ROTARIAN/BUSINESS PROPOSAL
_______________________________________________________________________________
DEAR C.E.O/MANAGING DIRECTOR
How do you do? I hope all is well with you and your family? I know that
you'll receive this Letter with a lot of apprehension and mixed feelings.
But I am assuring you of its total sincerity. Let me start by introducing my
humble self. My names are Rot MICHEAL WILLIAMS.I am among the farmers that
were affected in the Zimbabwean Land reform act.
Recently, the president of our country Robert Mugabe and his cabinet decided
to seize all our farmlands and machinery without any form of compensation.
The resultant effect of his action today in our country is unprecedented
hunger and starvation of the entire populace. I am writing you first and
foremost as a Rotarian and also as a man in dire need of urgent help. I had
to leave Zimbabwe with my wife and children to South Africa because my wife
and kids never wanted to remain in Zimbabwe after that day light robbery
from Mugabe.I still find it hard to believe that a country I’ve spent my
entire life could wake up one day and pass a law that empowers the president
to confiscate the farm land I inherited from my late Dad. It’s so absurd and
heart breaking. May God be the judge of Mugabe and his entire cabinet for
their ruthless action against humanity? Am writing you in connection with a
message I got from a security company in Europe. They wrote to inform me
that the fund (US$30 MILLION) my late dad deposited with them is now due for
withdrawal after the expiration of a 4-year contract with them. I do not
want the fund to be transferred back to any of my accounts in South Africa.
I do not want to take any chances with that huge sum of money. Who knows
President Thambo Mbeki might wake up one day and decide to freeze all our
accounts as well. I hope you understand my limitations and fears. They are
so unpredictable in this part of the world. I really want you to assist my
family in transferring the money from the security company in Europe to your
nominated account in your country. I am willing to offer you 30% of the
total Sum and my family will have 70% of the total sum, upon the final
transfer of the money to your nominated account in your country.
I know you would be wondering how I got your contact info. Actually I
contacted the district governor of rotary club in Zimbabwe as soon as I
received the message from the security company in Europe. I told him of my
intentions to relocate with my family to your country on permanent basis. He
then furnished me with your contact company postal address, which he got
through a business journal.
So I am officially soliciting for your assistance in securing the sum of $30
million dollars in your
Account, pending the time I relocate with my family to your country for
sharing of the money according to our agreed percentage. You will assist me
to invest my part of money in a very good business, because I don’t have any
business knowledge. I would also like to use this opportunity to ask you to
assist me and my family to look for a family house of about 5 bedrooms in
your locality, Preferably with a flower garden in it. Thanks for your
anticipated assistance. Please contact me immediately on this PHONE: +27
835048132, or you can send me a mail on micheal_wally@hotmail.com
GOD BLESS
Rot MICHEAL WILLIAMS
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