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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: "kathy olds" <kathyolds62@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:20:30 +0200
Subject: VERY URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
FROM: MRS KATHY OLDS
HARARE ZIMBABWE
E-MAIL: madam_kathyolds@yahoo.co.uk
ATTN: Director / C.E.O.
Good Day
PLEASE ASSIST MY FAMILY
I know you might be surprised to receive this mail from me since you don’t
know me personally. I am Mrs. Kathy Olds the wife of late Mr. Martin Dan
Olds, Zimbabwean farmer, the owner of Diary farms limited in Zimbabwe and
Martindan Tobacco producing company limited, and Vice Chairman of vocal
farming community, who was murdered by the Zimbabwean war veterans and irate
black people. I am writing this mail here Harare Zimbabwe.
I got your contact address through a friend that works in South Africa
Chamber of Commerce and Industry here in South Africa, when I went to South
Africa last week to see my son Alf .Though I did not disclose it to him ,
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 .
ALTHOUGH,IT IS NO LONGER NEWS,THE WORLD KNOWS TODAY THE WAY ALL THE BALCKS
AND WHITES FARMERS IN ZIMBABWE ARE BEING BRUTALLY MALTREATED BY OUR
PRESIDENT, THREATINING THEM TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.Please Click here and find
out what happened to my family and our country Zimbabwean from the links
below
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/818766.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm
Because of land and farmland crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly
sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to dispose the land
being occupied by the balcks and whites farmers. This action has led 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$25.5 million
dollars (Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) to
South Africa and deposited it in a Security & Finance 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 farmland in
Swaziland.
This money was deposited in a box as family valuables to avoid much
demurrage in the Security & Finance Company. On the 18 April the war
veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our
family farm house and axed my husband to death and my second son of 22yrs.
Since then they have been terrorizing my son Alf and his terrified but he
managed to escape to neighboring country South Africa as a political asylum
seeker (refugee). While me and my daughter Gloria are in Zimbabwe, but his
position in South Africa does not permit him to open an account or to
operate any business. That is why I want this fund to be transferred to your
account or your company account so that you will assist him to invest the
money in your country. If you accept to assist us, all I want from you is to
arrange and go to Johannesburg South Africa so that you can help him to open
a non-resident bank account in your name or in your company name which will
aid us in transferring the money into your nominated account overseas.
My family and I have two options 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 partnership with you for the proper profitable
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. I have also mapped out 5% of the total sum for any expenses
that might be incurred during the time of this transaction. If you do not
prefer a partnership, we are willing to give you 25% of the money while the
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 telephone number +27-83-503-1857, Or e-mail; {alfolds01@webmail.co.za}
Finally please treat this mater as urgent as possible, I’m in dire need of
him to leave that country soonest.
I expect your soonest and urgent response.
Best Regards,
MRS KATHY OLDS.
{For the family}
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