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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: abram ginikachi <uyfiojk@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: abramginikahi2005@yahoo.o.in
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 05:12:09 +0100 (BST)
Subject: abram
My Dear,
My name is Abraham Ginikachi. I want to ask you to quietly
help and look for a reliable and honest person who
will be capable to receive some amount of money
approximately Twenty Six Million United States Dollars
in a foreign account. I am in the audit department of
a local bank here in South Africa and during the
course of our auditing for the period ended october
2003,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened
in the Bank in 1998 and since 2001 nobody has operated
on this account. I quickly went through our data base
and files, in the records I discovered that the owner
of the account died without a (heir) hence the money
is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited according to the laws of
South Africa since it is close to six years of its
dormancy. The owner of this account was a foreigner
and owned an mining engineering firm in Cape Town.He
died since 2001 and no other person knows about this
account or anything concerning it except my bank. It
is true that the actual amount involved is 26M USD but
all I want to do first is to move out about 10M USD
from the principal into a safe foreigners account
abroad, After the first transaction is successfully
done, and I am sure you kept the money safely without
cheating me out of it all, we shall apply for the rest
of the funds. 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, because the money is in US dollars and the
former owner of the account was a foreigner too and
the money can only be approved into a foreign account.
Because the management of my bank is ready to approve
this payment to any foreigner who has the correct
information of this account, and with my influence and
position in the bank we can transfer this money to any
foreigner's reliable account, which you can provide
with assurance that the money will be intact pending
my physical arrival in your country for sharing. I
will use my position and influence to obtain all legal
approvals for onward transfer of this money to your
account with appropriate clearance from foreign
exchange departments. I shall destroy all document of
transaction immediately we receive this money leaving
no trace to any place. If you can help me as I have
requested,I will let you have some part of the funds
after the transfer as a gratification. We can
negotiate that but then we must sign a binding
agreement stating that on receipt of the funds you
will not try to cheat me or run away with the
money.This way, I will relax and be sure that you are
with me. YOU are the first and the only one that I
have contacted for this transaction, so please reply
urgently so that I will know what next to do. if you
and I agree i will disclose the account information to
you for application and i will make the transfer and
we meet face to face. I need your full co-operation to
make this work fine. You can reply with the above e mail account:
<a_ginikachi2005@yahoo.co.uk>
Regards,
Abraham Ginikachi
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