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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: "Prince Simon" <princesimono@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:20:41 +0200
Subject: Request For Assistant
FROM PRINCE SIMON
PHONE: 27-83-582-0864
FAX: 27-73-695-3188
SOUTH AFRICA,
JOHANNESBURG
Contact me through this Alternative Email Address (princesimono@yahoo.co.uk)
ATTN: Matilde,
My name is Prince Simon, the elder son of Mr. Simon Protius of Zimbabwe. I
got your contact address during my search for a reliable and competent
person who will assist me in this transaction. During the current crisis
against the farmers in my country and the supporters of our President Robert
Mugabe to claim all the white-owned and opposition party follower's farms to
his party members and his supporters, he ordered all white and opposition
farmers to surrender all their farms to his party members and his followers.
My father was one of the best farmers in our country and because he did not
support Mugabe's ideas and supported the opposition parties, Mugabe's
supporters invaded my father's farm and burnt everything in the farm at the
same time killing my father and most of the workers. They made away with a
lot of items in my father's farm. My mother and I managed to escape because
we were on holiday in South Africa at the time. Before his death, my father
had deposited the sum of US$25.5 Million (Twenty Five Million Five Hundered
Thousand United States Dollars)sealed in a safe box with a the private
Security Company in Johannesburg, South Africa.
After the burial of my father, we decided to relocate to the Republic of
South Africa and apply for assylum. I have since decided to contact overseas
firms and companies that might be able to assist my mother and I to move
this money out of South Africa into their private or company bank accounts
because as assylum seekers, we are not allowed to operate any bank account.
We have decided to offer 20% of the total sum for the assistance we will
recieve, 5% has been mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the
course of this transaction and the remaining 75% will be for us to invest in
the country where this money will be transferred to, of which we will also
need guidance as we do not know anything about investing or how the business
world works.
All I want is to see that this money is safely transferred into a bank
account overseas. If you are interested in helping me, you can contact me on
the above telephone and fax numbers or through e-mail. Note that this
transaction is 100% risk free. Please mantain the confidentiality of this
business because I would not like any publicity of this money.
Thanks and God bless.
Regards,
Prince Simon
Contact me through this Alternative Email Address (princesimono@yahoo.co.uk)
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