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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: "FRANK THEMBA" <fthembaza_18@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: fthembaza_1@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:00:33 +0000
Subject: Urgent Assistance Needed.
PRINCE FRANK THEMBA
PHONE:27731794630
JOHANNESBURG,SOUTH AFRICA.
Dear,
I am PRINCE FRANK THEMBA, First and only son of late CHIEF DAN THEMBA who
was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irrate black people.Before the
death of my father on the 1st of Oct 2003, he was a Properous Tobacco and
Coffee farmer in Zimbabwe and one of the major sponsor/ Financier of the
opposition party - Movement For Democratic Change(MDC)in Zimbabwe. He was
also the former president of Farmers Co-operative Trade Union in Zimbabwe.
I am writing you from Johanessburg,South Africa. I got your contact email
address through the South African International Information Exchange Centre
and decided to write you. I write to solicit for your special assistance to
a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by the dictator President
ROBERT MUGABE and his(ZANU-PF) ruling party.
I am probably of the convinction that you are aware of the present situation
in my country Zimbabwe sequel to the land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe,
the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irrate party
members to disposes the land being occupied by whites and some rich farmers
who are opposed to his consistent stay in power and his radical and
unnecessary reforms targeted at his political opponents.
This action has led to the killing of some members of the opposition party
including my beloved father (CHIEF DAN THEMBA),who did not support this
ill-fated action. But before the death of my father and the consistent
threats to his life, he anticipated some dangers and so he smuggled out the
sum of US$20.5m(TWENTY MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES
DOLLARS), to South Africa since it is the nearest neighbouring country and
deposited it in a security/finance company with the intention of using it
for the purchase of New farm machinery and chemicals for Agricultural
purposes in South Africa as well as a purchase of some hectares of land in
swaziland.
On the 1st Oct, 2003, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF)
ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him(my father) to death.
Since then, they have been terrorizing me and my widowed mother, but we
succeeded to work for our escape to a neighbouring country, South Africa as
a political asylum seeker (refugee). But our position in South Africa does
not permit me to open an account or normalise this fund for any meaningful
business transaction in south Africa since I does not have a south Africa
Identity Card. That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your
Norminated account so that you will assist me to invest it in your country.
Hence,if you agree to assist us, we have two options for you, we have agreed
to go into partnership with you and your family or in the alternatve, we
offer you 20%of the money for your assistance, 5% will be for the possible
expenses incurred in the process of this transaction,while 75%will be for
our family investment in your country,through your
assistance.
I want you to understand that this fund is purely a family fund/ money and
not drug money, nor could it be classified as government fund or Money
Laundering affairs and it could be substanciated by relevant authorties by
our attorney.It is Family fund but termed confidential because I do not want
myself to be traced to where i'm presently. If you are interested in
assisting us, kindly contact me with this email address,and the telephone
number above. Right now, I am presently in south Africa with my widowed
mother and my younger sister and the whole of my family sequel to the
tensed political situation and the fear for our lives in Zimbabwe. I need
your urgent and confidential response.
Thanks. Best regards
Prince FRANK THEMBA
(For the Family
N/B.For some background information please visit the following web link to
read some news on the British Broadcasting Corporation web site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2192947.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1503964.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3328163.stm
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