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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: "DR SMITH PAUL" <dr_smithpaul01@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: dr_smithpaul@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 02:59:21 +0100
Subject:
From Dr. Smith Paul.
Dear Sir/Madam,
This letter is meant to contact you following knowledge of your
esteemed self to help us out of this difficult situation that my family
has engulfed since the death of my father and the breadwinner of our family who was recently murdered in the land dispute in Zimbabwe.
I am Dr Smith Paul from Zimbabwe, the first and only son of Dr. Arnold Paul communicating to you from Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa.
I, on behalf of my family decide to solicit for your assistance to
transfer the sum of US$18.5 million (Eighteen million five hundred
thousand united states dollars) inherited from my late father into your company or private bank account.
Before his death my father on one of his many trips abroad took to
Johannesburg to deposit the sum of US$18.5million (Eighteen million,
five hundred thousand United states dollar) with a private security
company as his foresaw the looming danger in Zimbabwe. The money was
deposited with the security company on our arrival in Johannesburg
largely for its safety. President Mugabe gave this money to my father
for investment purpose while they were still in good
terms.
This land problem arose when President Mugabe who according to my late
father in a desperate bid to hold on to power for life introduced a new
land act, which wholly affected rich farmers who were mostly white and
some blacks vehemently condemned adopted by the
government. And that resulted in rampant killings looting and white
scare mob actions by the veterans and scone political thug.
Unfortunately
my late father was among the few black Zimbabwean rich farmers
murdered in cold blood by the agents of the ruling government of
President Robert Mugabe for his alleged opposition against the
government 's
new land act.
Heads of government from western world especially Britain and the
United States of America have voiced their condemnation against Mugabe
action.
As it stands now, I am the only person that has access to the money and
the necessary document needed for its collection. From the above you
will understand that the lives and fortune of my family depend on this
fund as such I will be grateful if you can assist us We are
now living in South Africa as political Asylum seekers and the
financial laws and regulations of South Africa do not permit us certain
financial rights.
In view of this I cannot invest this money in South Africa hence my
asking you to assist me to transfer it out of South Africa for
investment
purpose in your country. So please consider this as a request from a
family in dire need of assistance.
For your effort, we are prepared to offer you 25% of the total sum
while 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the course of
this
transaction and remaining 65% for the family investment abroad. Please
note that this transaction is risk-free and the major
thing I ask of you is to assure me the safety of the money when
transferred into your account.
Further information and arrangement will commence as soon as trust
confidence and good relation is established. I shall be most grateful
if
you can maintain the confidentiality of the matter. Thank you as I wait
your urgent response via telephone or E-mail above for more details and
don't forget to keep all information regarding to this as highly
confidential
Best regards
Dr.Smith Paul.
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