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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: "DAVID BRUMA" <david_bruma2005@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:42:53 +0200
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE/INVESTMENT
NO: 47 SOPER ROAD BEREA
FLAT 407 FABIAN HIEGHT
JOHANESSBURG SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: +27-73-131-6566
Email:david_bruma2005@yahoo.ca
ATTENTION: DIRECTOR (C.E.O)
This letter may come to you as a surprise, but be assured that it is in good
faith from a family in dare need of help. I am Mrs. Doreen BRUMA, the wife
of late Brigadier B. C. BRUMA, the public relation officer to the late
Laurent Kabila former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo who was
assassinated on Tuesday, the 16th of January 2001 by one of his bodyguards
who also comes from the same community with him.
Your firm was introduced to me by career diplomat whom I consulted in my
search for a reliable individual company who can assist my son JAFF BRUMA in
transferring a reasonable sum of money US$ 23. 5 million (Twenty Three
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) into your company’s
private account for safekeeping. Originally this money (US$ 23. 5 million)
was mapped our for military seminar scheduled to be held on the 19th January
2001 in the capital city of Kinshasa, and my father was solely in charge of
the organizing of the seminar. Unfortunately the news of the assassination
of the president broke on the 16th and my husband used the opportunity to
divert the fund for our family future planning and therefore cleverly moved
into South Africa and deposited the consignment containing the fund in
private Security & Finance Company in South Africa.
He came back from South Africa after depositing the money and was arrested
along with other top officials of the government by Major General Joseph
Kabila, the son of the late president who is now the new president, with the
intention to rope them in, unfortunately my husband died in detention on the
15th April 2001.
Tentatively, we have agreed to offer you 25% of the total amount for your
assistance, 5% has been mapped out to offset expenses that may be incurred
by both parties in the course of this transaction and 70% will be kept for
our family investment in your country. You will understand that the
continuous existence of this family depends on this fund, this is why I have
taken this responsibility of making this initial contact for my son DAVID.
Therefore, on acceptance of this proposal, you are advised to contact DAVID
who is in South Africa on telephone + or email for more details on this
transaction and also please do furnish him with your private telephone and
fax numbers for easier and effective communication.
I wish to assure you that this transaction is risk free and machinery
necessary for the speedy conclusion has been successfully arranged.
Thanks and God bless.
DR.DAVID BRUMA
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