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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: khumalojohn@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:49:58 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Urgent=20Attention=3A=20US=2418=2E5M=20=28CAPITAL=20INVESTMENT=29?=
From Mr. John Atula Khumalo
For Khumalo"s family
mailto:johnatula@sify.com
CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN YOUR COUNTRY.
Dear Sir/ Madam
I am Mr. John Atula Khumalo a Zimbabwean and the son of Mr. Madox Khumalo,
a renowned Farmer in Bulawayo Town in Zimbabwe. I write on behalf of the
Khumalo"s family, to request if you are available and have the facility
to assist my family undertake some capital investment in your country. It
will be necessary to inform you that the (US$18.5M) Eighteen million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) intended for capitalization of the
investments in the custody of a private security company in Johannesburg,
South Africa which I have presently Transfered out of South Africa to Europe
for immediately investment purposes.
You may have heard of the present crisis in Zimbabwe orchestrated by the
unprecedented Land use Act of the government of Robert Mugabe in which his
government has arbitrarily reclaimed and acquired all farm lands owned by
the white farmers in the country. This has caused a historical
displacement of the white folks who are known to be the country's main farmers.
The ensuing struggles and strife have brought about the killing and imprisonment
of thousands of these white farm owners by the ruthless government forces
designated to enforce this new order.
My father, in his good will, joined the international community in condemning
and speaking out against this uncivilized and bizarre policy of Robert Mugabe's
government. As a result of my father firm and upright position on this matter,
a group of assailants suspected to be government sympathizers attached and
killed my father in cold blood in February last year. Seeing that the entire
Moyo's family was in serious threat of extinction, we immediately fled Zimbabwe
to South Africa, and from Republic of South Africa to The Netherlands, where
we have sojourned ever since as refugees under the United Nations.
Prior however, to my father untimely death he had, sensing the rising hostilities,
sold some of his farm lands including those of some of his white farmer
associates who had transferred ownership of their farm lands to my father
to forestall the government acquiring them. My father secretly sent the
proceeds {US$18.5M} Eighteen million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) from sales of the farm lands to South Africa. And deposited it
in a metal box with a private security company in Johannesburg, which I
have retransferred to a private security company in Europe for immediate
investment.
Having seen your contact information in your country business journal, we
now contact you for immediate assistance in lifting the funds out of South
Africa for the said investments. It will interest you also to note that
we have all this while articulated the needful arrangements through which
the transfer will be affected. To come to terms with you regarding your
reward for helping us actualize this matter, we have agreed to offer you
20% of the total money, 5% will be mapped out for the expenses we may incur
during this transaction then 75% will be for me and my family. It is equally
important to state here that considering the nature of this matter, we will
required that it is handled most discreetly.
Kindly, contact me using the above and below E-MAIL ADDRESSES upon receipt
of this letter for execution details and other necessary discussion if you
are interested. In anticipation of your trusted and Genuine assistance
I remain,
yours sincerely
Mr.John Atula Khumalo
For Khumalo"s family
mailto:johnatula@sify.com
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