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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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  • "is 100% risk-free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
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Fraud email example:

From: paul khunema <paulkhunema@yahoo.ca>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 05:11:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: URGENT FAMILY ASSISTANCE


FROM:PAUL KHUNEMA
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG
TEL:27-82 4831 967


Dear

My name is MR. PAUL KHUNEMA, the elder son of MR. BEN
KHUNEMA of Zimbabwe. This might be a surprise to you
about where I got your contact address. I got your
address from the South African Chamber of Commerce in
Johannesburg, South Africa.

During the current war against the farmers in
Zimbabwe from the supports of our President Robert
Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party
members and his followers, he ordered all white
farmers to surrender all their farms to his party
members and his followers.

My father is one of the best farmers in our country
and because he did not support Mugabe’s ideas,
Mugabe’s supporters invaded my father’s farm and burnt
everything in the farm, killing my father and made
away with a lot of items in my father’ s farm.

Before his death, my father had deposited with one
of the Security Company in Johannesburg, South Africa
the sum of US$26 Million (Twenty Six Million United
States Dollars). After the death of my father, we
decided to move to the Republic of South Africa where
he had deposited the money in the Security Company as
valuables.

So I decided to contact overseas firm and companies
that will assist me to move this money out of South
Africa because as asylum seekers we are not allowed to
operate any bank account within South Africa. We have
agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for your
assistance, 5% will be mapped out for any expenses
that may be incurred in the course of this transaction
and 75% will be for me and my family to invest in your
country.

All I want you to do is to furnish me with your
entire personal phone and fax numbers for easy
communication. Note that this transaction is 100%
risk-free and absolutely confidential.

Thanks and God bless.

Regards,

PAUL KHUNEMA.






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