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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: "mathew khosa" <drmathew_khosa02@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:46:30 +0000
Subject: Dr Mathew Khosa.
Dr. Mathew Khosa
ABSA Bank Limited,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
E-mail address,Drmathewkhosa@702mail.co.za.
Dear Sir,
I am Dr.Mathew Khosa manager of bills/exchange at the foreign remittance
department of ABSA Bank.In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of
US$14,700,000.00 (Fourteen Million,Seven Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars only) in an account that belonged to one one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family, on November 1996, in a
ghastly plane crash,and he happened to be a Foreigner. Since we got the
information about his death, wehave been expecting his next-of-kin to come
over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody
applied for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in
our bankin! g guidelines. Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim
this money.
It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have decided
to establish a cordial
business relationship with you, hence by contacting you. We want you to
present yourself as the
next of kin through your relation with the deceased with the fact that you
bear the same last name
with the deaceased, so that the funds can be remitted into your account.
Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the government account as
unclaimed bills. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that any
account abandoned or is dormant for a period of years, is deemed closed and
all money contained therein forfeited to the government treasury
account.Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred
into the government account as an unclaimed fund on or before the end of
this financial quarter of 2005, when nobody come forward to lay claims.The
reason for requesting you to present yourself as next of kin, is occasioned
by, the fact that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner, and we have
access to his detailed bio data which you will hold as a weapon to present
yourself as the next of kin.
The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your
account, shall be 75% to
my colleagues and I, for the role you will be expected to play in this deal,
we have agreed to give
you 20% of the total sum and 5% for the expenses we are going to encounter
by the two parties in the course of this transaction. Therefore,you are
expected to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to
participate in this business. After receiving your reply, you will be
communicated to with the exact steps to take.
I expect your urgent response through my email
address:Drmathewkhosa@702mail.co.za.with the following info.(1) Your full
name and address.(2) Your telephone and fax number.
And i shall contact you for further discussion on this matte! r,to enable us
conclude this transaction urgently without any delay or hitch. Please treat
this business proposal as strictlyconfidential for security
reasonsconsidering my official position in ABSA Bank.
Personal Regards,
Dr.Mathew Khosa,MLLB,BIRMINGHAM.
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