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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: Philip Zolado <zoladophil1@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 13:36:53 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Quick Response............
From: Philip Zolado
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.
REQUEST FOR A BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP
I am Mr. Philip Zolado of the Department of Trade and Industry(DTI) in South Africa. I got your contact from a trade research journal and decide on contacting you to offer you this proposal, which If interest is shown would be of mutual benefict to us.
THE PROPOSAL:
My colleagues and I were members of the Contract Award Committee of the Ministry. During the last award, we dealt mainly with Foreign Contractors and we did over inflate the contract value, which was awarded to a particular company to the tune of US$15 Million. These therefore warrants that we should front a foreign company as a sub contractor in the Ministry in order to claim this money and thereby get it paid into the foreign account of the firm.
My colleagues and I decided that I should contact you in order to sound you out if you can assist us in this transaction. What we would require from you would be the representation that you are a sub contractor and all necessary documentations for this transaction would be taken care of by us. You should be assured that there is no risk involved in this transaction and the maximum number of days within which we can realize it is 14 days from date of filing the request for claim.
COMPENSATION:
It is the decision of my colleagues and I that we should compensate you with 20% of the total sum once the money get into your account. You should also guarantee us that we would receive our percentage without problems.
Do contact me using the above medium in order for me to brief you on the modus operandi. If you are not disposed to handling this transaction, please treat the matter as if we never contacted you.
Yours faithfully,
Philip Zolado
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