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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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From: "robert becks" <robecks_2@msn.com>
Reply-To: robecks_2@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:06:20 +0000
Subject: PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE.
Hello,
It is my great pleasure to write you this letter on behalf of my colleagues
Your information were given to me by a member of the South African Export
Promotion Council (SAEPC) who was with the Black Economic Empowerment
Commission Government delegation on a trip to your country during a
bilateral conference talk to encourage foreign investors, I have decided to
seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of a deal
hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it
confidential because of the nature of business.
Within the Department of Mining Resources where I work as the Director of
Project Implementation with co-operation of three other top officials we
have in our possession an overdue payment in US funds.
The said funds represent certain percentage of the contract value executed
on behalf of my Ministry by a foreign contracting firm which we the
officials over-invoiced to the amount of US$20,500,000 Twenty Million five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Though the actual contract cost has
been paid to the original contractor leaving the excess balance unclaimed.
The Government of the Republic of South Africa believes that private
investment in general and foreign direct investment in particular are the
real engines for sustainable economic development for which reason it has
continued to encourage investments in the key growth oriented sector of
Mining with sincere determination to pay foreign contractors all debts owed
to them so as to continue to enjoy close relationship and a mutually
beneficial co-operation with foreign governments and non-governmental
financial agencies As a result we included our bills for approvals with the
co-operation of some officials at the Department of Finance and the Reserve
Bank of South Africa (RBSA) We are seeking your assistance as the
beneficiary of the unclaimed funds since we are not allowed by law to
operate a foreign account Details and changing of beneficiary information
and other forms of documentation upon application for claim to reflect the
payment and approvals will be secured on behalf of your company or your good
self I have the authority of my colleagues involved to propose that should
you be willing to assist us in this transaction your share as compensation
will be 20% while my colleagues and I shall receive 70% and the balance of
10% shall be used to reimburse all expenditures taxes and miscellaneous
expenses so incurred during the couse of this transaction.
It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of the
nature described here The assumption is that your company won the major
contract and subcontracted it to other companies More often than not big
trading companies and firms of unrelated fields win major contracts and
subcontract same to more specialized firms for execution,This business
itself is 100% safe provided you treat it with utmost confidentiality Also
your specialization is not a hindrance to the successful execution of this
mutually beneficial transaction I repose confidence in you and hope that you
will not disappoint us.
Kindly notify me by email for further details upon your acceptance of this
proposal.
Best Regards,
Mr.Robert Becks,
Director of Project Implementation,
Department of Mining Resources.
Republic South Africa.
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