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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_jabo01@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:12:00 -0800
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT
From : MR.MARTINS JABO
67 Booysens road Ophinton
Johannesburg,
Tel: +27-724-361-055.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please I know you will be suprise to receive this mail, My name is MR.MARTINS JABO,
from Gauteng Province, South Africa. I reside presently at 67 Booysens road
Ophinton Johannesburg South Africa, I got your Contact address from
CENTRE FOR GLOBAL INTEGRATION South Africa I Strongly trusted my instinct
when I decided to divulge this sensitive and highly confidential information to you,
even when my wife thinks otherwise. and I sincerely hope you will be reliable,
trusted and God-fearing enough to execute this transaction with me successfully for
our benefits.
Iam a banker by profession, working with ABSA BANK Johannesburg, I was at work one
morning in December, 2000, when A top management staff of Gold mining company whom
approached me Introduced himself as Mr. Johannes Davidson and went ahead to say that
he had come to me because I helped him on few occasions to either withdraw or deposit
cash in the Bank.
He subsequently appealed to me to assist him to safely transfer from the Mining Company
’s account to his new private account with the Bank where I work, the sum of $21.7m This
amount the man admitted to me was in the staff welfare fund which has not been
used for 11 years and therefore wanted to convert this sum to his private account,
After a careful study of the possibility of the transaction,and putting into considering
that the man was the chief accountant of the company.
I was satisfied, that there was little or no risk involved,
We successfully executed the
plan without a hitch within seven days, Unfortunately for
Mr. Davidson he fell a victim of high spate of crime that
Characterized South African
society then, he was attacked at his residence by armed
robbers and was shot dead on
December 30th, 2000,barely one week after this transaction.
Having waited for over 5years,I carried out a private and a
quiet Investigation and discovered that iam the only person
who knows about this Account and its details. As a professional
banker of many years of experience, I have concluded a watertight
master plan how to transfer this money to a foreign account from
where I will invest it. It is at this juncture that I write and
humbly solicit for your candid cooperation to facilitate the
transfer by sending me you personal details, which will include,
your contact address, name etc.
The transfer of this money to your account would take 7 to 14 working
Days after which25% of the total sum would be yours 75% mine. Please I
implore you to treat this with utmost confidentiality, and i urgently
await your reply to this Mail or call me on the telephone number:
+27-724-361-055 for any information or details you wish to know.
YOURS FAITHFULLY
MARTINS JABO
ANTICIPATED CO-OPERATION
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