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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: ericwilliams60008@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 05:57:45 +0200
Subject: RE:CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT
FROM. MR. ERIC WILLIAMS
16B. ROGGEBAAI GRA,SANDTON
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA.
PRIVATE MAILBOX: ericwilliams60004@yahoo.co.uk
ATTN: CEO/PRESIDENT.
CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT
I am MR. ERIC WILLIAMS the chief auditor of {ABSA} bank South Africa. I got your contact address from your country’s Trade Journal. Your impressive and managerial records made to solicit for your partnership these regards. You are the only person that I have contacted in this business with the believe that you will not let me down. After going through some old files in the records department, I discovered that there is an account opened in this bank in 1982 and since 1992, nobody has operated in this account. The owner of this account is late Mr. Jerome N. Snaga, a foreigner and a miner at the Anglo Gold Platinum Mining Company in Mafikeng, as a geologist by profession and he died since 1992. Up till now, nobody knows about this account or anything 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$42M (Fourty-Two Million United States Dollars) and I want to first transf er US$12M (Twelve Million United States Dollars) from the money into a safe foreign account abroad before the rest, but I’ve not gotten a trusted foreigner.
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can be approved to any foreign account because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the account Mr. Snaga was a foreigner and because of the need to involve a foreigner account, I need your full co-operation to make this work smoothly because the management is ready to approve this payment to whoever that has correct information to this account. Of which I will give to you later, if you are able to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my instruction and advice for our mutual benefits because this opportunity will never come again in my life, need your strong assurance reliability with my position now in the office, I can transfer this money to any reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. I will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money, leaving no trace of any. You can also come to discuss with me face-to-face then the remittance will be made in the presence of both of us. Then we will fly to your country at least two days ahead before the money gets into your account.
I have the tendency to invest my own share of the money in your country in expectation to sound management and good capital returns according to your advice. Be assured that you stand no risk of any kind as the fund belongs to us now. Therefore after the eventual stage of the transfer of this fund, I am offering you 25% of the total fund, 70% will be for me while 5% will be set aside for expenses that might incur during the course of this transaction OR you can call me to discuss on the percentage if this did not go well with you. I strongly believe that association with you to embark on this fund, other business ventures will derive a huge success thereafter. I will use my position to influence to effect approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms from the ministries and foreign exchange department. I am counting on your sense of confidentiality, as it is my desire to keep this to yourself. Looking forward to your urgent response.
Best Regards,
MR. ERIC WILLIAMS
Unless otherwise indicate or obvious from the nature of this transmittal, the information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential information intended for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or coping of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error or are not sure whether it is privileged, please immediately notify me by above numbers or email address and return or destroy the original.
Thanks
This is my private mailbox, you are free to contact me on it so that I can be able to give you answer without delay.
Private mail: ericwilliams60004@yahoo.co.uk
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