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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: jacobvuyo123@yahoo.ca
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:22:52 -0800
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS TRANSFER
PHONE;27-83-508-6854
FAX;27-7326-29721
Dear Sir/Madam
Please take this email as a very important email and please keep it secrete. I am DR JACOB VUYO. AUDIT DEPT ASSISTANT MANAGER OF AMALGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (ABSA).
There is an account opened in this bank in 1990 and since 2000 nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is MR. SMITH B. ANDREA, a foreigner, and a miner at Kruger Goal Co. a geologist by profession and he died since 2000.No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that this company does not know anything about this account and the amount involved is US$20.5MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS).I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign account because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the account is MR. SMITH B. ANDREAS is a foreigner too.
I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we never met before. We will sign an agreement but be sure that it is real and a genuine business. Please reply urgently so that we will inform you the next step to take immediately. I want us to meet face to face or sign a binding agreement to bind us together so that you can receive this money into a foreign account or any account of our choice where the fund will be safe. And I will fly to your country for sharing and do some investments. Meanwhile you can open a new account in any bank for this purpose if you like.
I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreign account and a foreign beneficiary. I need your full cooperation to make this work fine because the management is ready to give approval to any foreigner, who has the correct information of the account, which I will give to you later, if you are able and willing to handle such an amount of money in strict confidence and trust according to my instructions and advice for our mutual benefit because this opportunity will never come again in my life. I need truthful person in this business because I don’t want to make mistake, I need your strong assurance and trust. With my position now in the office I can transfer this money to any foreigner’s reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be in tact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. You can also come to discuss with me face to face after which I will make this remittance in your presence and two of us will fly to your country at least two d ays ahead of the money going into the account. I will use my position and influence to effect the legal approvals and onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms of ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of this business, 25% of the total amount will be yours while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring, 70% will be for me.give your direct telephone and fax numbers for information,
I look forward to your earliest reply.
YOURS
DR JACOB VUYO
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