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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: Martins Biyah <bi_martins75@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:12:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Business Proposal
ATTENTION:
FROM THE DIRETOR,DELIVERY/OPERATIONS,TRANSWORLD
SECURITIES,SOUTH AFRICA.
I am MR MARTINS BIYAH, the director of Delivery/ Operations Transworld Securities, South Africa.
Our firm is a company of high repute with years of outstanding services to the people of Africa especially top government officials and military leaders here in Africa.
I have resolved to contact you through this medium based on business proposal that will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I have not discussed this with anybody because it is of top secret.
To be explicit and straight to the point, sometime early 1997 a reputable client of ours deposited a consignment in our company's vault for safekeeping.
And since then our client has failed to come forward to claim his consignment, which has accumulated a considerable amount of money in demurrage.
Consequently, in our bid to contact this client to redeem the demurrage, which his consignment had accumulated, we discovered that our client was the former President of the Federation Republic of Zaire, who died of illness after he was dethroned in the same year the consignment was entrusted into our care.
Since the death of our client President Mobutu Seseseko, none of his benefactors has come forward to claim the consignment with us, which means that non of his relatives or aids has any knowledge of thisconsignment.
Hence out of curiosity I decided to secretly open the two boxes that our client deposited in our vault. And to my surprise I discovered that the boxes that were registered as treasure by our client actually contained a considerable amount of money in United States Dollars amounting to about US$18.3 million US Dollars.
Since this development I have been nursing plans secretly. I also found out from enquiries and the foreign media that our late client siphoned a lot of money from his country while he was in office as head of state.
It is my conviction that the consignment in our vault was part of the money that our client siphoned and now that he is dead there is no trace to this money in our care.
I am now soliciting your noble assistance to assist me in transferring this money out of South Africa to your country for immediate investment with your assistance.
I have also decided that you will generously be entitled to 40% and I has map out 10% for any expanses that might have come over during the process of this transaction while 50% will be for me, out of the total amount.
Upon my receipt of your reply confirming your willingness to assist me, I will immediately arrange and transfer all the rights of ownership of this
consignment to your name to facilitate your easy clearance and transfer of the complete funds to your country for onwards investment.
This transaction is 100% risk free. Please maintain absolute confidential on this matter.
I await your most prompt response through my phone +27
73 751 7997 or this email address.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. MARTINS BIYAH.
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