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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: "rita zuma" <ritazuma1@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 05:26:26 +0200
Subject: MY FAMILY NEED YOUR HELP
FROM MISS RITA ZUMA
FROM:JOHANNESBURG,SOUTH AFRICA.
ATTN: SIR/MADAM,
You might be surprise to receive this letter from me since you don't know me
personally. I am MISS RITA ZUMA the wife of late MR MICHAEL ZUMA who was
murdered by the Zimbabwe war veterans and irate black people. I got your
contact e-mail address through South Africa chamber of commerce and
industry.
After due consideration of your profile,hence I decided to write to you. I
write to solicit for your special assistance to my family shattered by a
tyrannical Government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party.
President Robert Mugabe.
Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe the Government Secretly
sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to disposed the land
being occupied by the white farmers. This action hasled to killing of some
members of opposition party including my husband who did not support this
ill-fated action.
But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he
smuggled out the sum of US$14.6 million dollars(Fourhteen point six million
united state dollars) to South Africa and deposited it in a Security Company
with the intention of using it for the purchase of farm machinery and
chemicals for agricultural purpose in South Africa and establishment of a
new farm in Swaziland.
This money was deposited in a box as a germ stone to avoid much demurrage in
the Security Company. On the 29 august 2001 the warveterans and some
spotters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compoud and axed my
husband to death and my second son of 22yrs. Since then they have been
terrorizing my son Antony but he managed to escape to neighbouring country
South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee).
His position in South Africa dose not permit him to open an account or to
oparate any business. That is why I want this fund to be transferred in your
account so that you will assist him to invest the money in your country. I
must let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free.
If you accept to assist us, all I want from you is to arrange and come down
to Johannesburg South Africa so that you can help him to open a non-resident
bank account in your name which will aid us in transferring the money into
your nominating account overseas.
I have two option for you, firstly, you can choose to have certain
percentage of the money for nominating your account in this transaction or
we can go into pertnership with you for the proper profitabel investment of
the money in your country whichever the option you want feel free to notify
with him.
He will then furnish you with every detail you needed to know. We have also
mapped out 5% of the total sum for any expenses that might be incurred
during the time of this transction.
If you do not prefer a partnership, we are willing to give you 25% of the
money while remaining 70% will remain for my family, if you are really
capable and willing to assist us please contact him immediately in South
Africa with this e-mail that I used to sent this mail to you.
Finally please treat this mater as urgent as possible, I'm in dire him to
leave that country soonest. Thanks for you're mutual co-operation. I
expecting your soonest and urgent response. And you can please contact my
son Johnson Zuma with this number (+27 73 4642 358) e-mail address
johnsonzuma_2000@yahoo.co.in
Best Regards,
(MISS RITA ZUMA)
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