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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: "Dr. Norman Elvis" <paddy_paddy@IXP.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:26:45 -0700
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
Closeoff Ruma ,
Ernest Oppenheimer
Road Bruma Lake,
Johannesburg,2196
South Africa.
DEAR SIR/MADAM,
( RE: TRANSFER OF ($125,000.000.00 USD )
ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
I want to transfer ($125,000.000.00 USD) One Hundred & Twenty five
million United States Dollars from a Prime Bank here in South Africa to an
oversea account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction. This is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly
confidential.
I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to
prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to
enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for unward
investment.You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up
a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c
can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me
till the end of this important business trusting in you and believing
that you will never let me down either now or in future.
I am the personal account officer to the great late INDUSTRIALIST who
has an account in one of the top banks here in South Africa. The account
was opened in 1998 and he died in 2003 without a written or oral WILL
and since 2003 nobody has operated on this account again hence the money
is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows
about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and until his death he was the manager of the company.My
investigation through the National immigration department proved to me as well
that he was single as at the time of his entry into the Republic of South
Africa.
The amount in this account is USD$125 Million ( One Hundred & Twenty
five Million United States Dollars ) only.
As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for
investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the
management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information
to this account which I will give to you immediately, if you are
interested to do this business with me.There is no risk in this business. With
my position and my personal contact with the manager of the bank, the
money can be transferred to any account you can provide with assurance
that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country
for sharing.
We will start the first transfer with Twenty five million [$25,000.000]
Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we
shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of $100 Million
to your account. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this
money can not be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved
to any foreigner who has the correct information of the account which I
will provide for you.
So you should provide me with your correct account detail where you
will like the fund to be transferred or you can set up a new account for
the transfer even an empty account is ok. At the conclussion of the
transfer you will take 35%,5% will be for any expenses both parties incurred
in the process of this business and the remaining 60% will be for me As
soon as I hear from you and upon your strong assurance that you will not
let me down once the fund goes into your account I will then start the
processing of the transfer of the fund to your account without further
delay.
Send the Information as I stated below.
Bank Name:.............
Bank Address:..........
A/C Number:...........
A/C Name:............
Swift Code:.........
Contact me through this my private email address : paddy_paddy@ixp.net
Thanks.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Norman Elvis
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