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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: "Sipho Mabena" <siphomabe@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: siphomab@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:36:08 +0200
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL
FROM: ENGR, SIPHO MABENA
PHONE: +27-83-559-0279.
PRESIDENT/CEO
I pray this proposal meet your kind cooperation. I am ENGR, SIPHO MABENA, a native of Cape Town in South Africa and I am an Executive Accountant with the South Africa Department of Mining & Natural Resources.
First and foremost, I apologized using this medium to reach you for atransaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to Confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium. Be informed that a member of the South Africa Export Promotion Council (SEPC) who was at the Government delegation to your country during a trade exhibition gave your enviable credentials/particulars to me. I plea to seek a confidential cooperation
with you in the execution of the deal described Hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature of this transaction.
Within the Department of Mining & Natural Resources where I work as an Executive Accountant and with the cooperation of two other top officials, we have in our possession as overdue payment bills totaling Twenty Two Million, Five Hundred And Sixty
Thousand U. S. Dollars ($22,560,000.) which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a foreign company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable foreign non-company account to receive such funds. More so, we are handicapped in the ircumstances, as the South Africa Civil Service Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore account hence your importance in the whole
transaction.
This amount $22.560m represents the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract cost have been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount which we have in principles gotten approval to remit by Telegraphic Transfer (T.T) to any foreign bank account you will provide by filing in an application through the Justice Ministry here in South Africa
for the transfer of rights and privileges of the former contractor to you.
I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that, should you be willing to assist us in this transaction that is 100% hitch free, your share of the sum will be 25% of the $22.560 million, 70% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses. The business itself is 100% safe, on your part provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and
confidentiality. Also your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful
execution of this transaction. I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me. Endeavor to contact me immediately through my above Tel number or my e-mail address, whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal I want to assure you that my partners and myself are in a position to make the payment of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong Assurance and guarantee that our share will be secured and please remember to treat this as very confidential because, we will not comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active Government Service and remember once again that time is of the essence in this business.
I await in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.And you can also reach me with this private email address:
Yours faithfully,
ENGR, SIPHO MABENA
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