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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: "john smith" <johnsmith_00134@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:11:16 +0200
Subject: FROM:MR.JOHN SMITH
FROM:MR.JOHN SMITH
E-mail:johnsmith_00134@hotmail.com
PHONE;27-72-665-0256
ADDRESS:No 8 CRESENT AVENUE
JOHENNSBURG SOUTH AFRICA
MAN/DIREC,C.E.O
GOOD DAY
This letter is not intended to cause you any embarrassment in whatever form,
rather is in good faith from a family in dear need of assistance,following
knowledge of your high repute andtrustworthiness, is borne out of this
difficultsituation that our family has been engulfed in sinceour father and
bread winner of our family was forcedto relinquish his position.
My name is MR.JOHN SMITH,the elder son of Mr. PAULSMITH of Zimbabwe. I got
your contact through SouthAfrican Trade Journal here in my search for
reliablecompany/personal account who can assist us intransferring this money
out of South Africa. During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwefrom
the support of our President Robert Mugabe toclaim all the white-owned farms
to his party Members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to
surrender all their farms to his partymembers and his followers.My father is
one of the best farmers in our country and because he did notSupport
Mugabe’s ideas Mugabe’ssupporters invaded myfather's farms and Burnt
everything in the farm,killed my father and took everthing he hard.Beforehis
death,he had deposited with one of the SecurityCompany in Johannesburg,
South Africa the sum of(US$7,000,000,00.Milion United States Dollars).
After the death of our father,we decided to move tothe Republic of South
Africa where he had depositedthe Money in the Security Company as valuables.
It isin this regards that l,my mother and my two sistersdecided to contact
overseas firm and companies thatwill assist us to move this money out of
South Africabecause as asylum seekers we are not allowed tooperate any bank
account within South Africa. We haveagreed to offer you 30% of the total sum
for yourassistant,10%will be mapped out for any expenses thatmay be incurred
in the courtesy of this transactionand 60% will be for our family investment
in yourcountry.
All I want you to do is to furnish me with your entirepersonal and fax
numbers for easy communication. Youcan contact me on the above Telephone and
e-mailaddress.
Note that this transaction is 100% risk freeand absolutely confidential.
Thanks and best Regard
MR.JOHN SMITH.
(unbehalf of the family)
NB:THESE ARE USEFUL LINKS THAT WILL HELP YOU TO SEE THE CURRENT LAND
CRISES IN MY COUNTRY ZIMBABWE FOR NOW.JUST COPY THESE LINKS TO VIEW
http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/dec4.html
http://www.amren.com/006issue/006issue.html#cover
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/06/24/zimbabwe.farmers/
http://www.amren.com/0105issue/0105issue.htm#namibia
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/zimbabwe/index.php
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