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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: "mark aliu" <alimark05@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: markali2005@myway.com
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:24:17 +0000
Subject: MR. MARK ALI
FIRST SECURITIES DISCOUNT HOUSE LIMITED
FROM: MR. MARK ALI
E-MAIL TO REPLY : markali2005@myway.com
ATTN: THE PRESIDENT/CEO
DEAR SIR,
I am MR. MARK ALI, the director Of Operations, FIRST SECURITIES DISCOUNT
HOUSE LIMITED,JOHANNESBURG,here in SOUTH AFRICA. Our firm is a security
company of high repute with years of outstanding service to the people of
SOUTH AFRICA.I have resolved to contact you through this mediumbased on
business proposal that will of mutualbenefit to both of us.I have not
discussed this transaction with anybody because of its top secret.To
beexplicit and straight to the point. Sometime, early last 1997; a reputable
clients of ours deposited a consignmentin our company's vault for safe
keeping. And since then our client has failed to come forward to claim his
consignment, which has accumulated a considerable amount of money in
demurrage.
Consequently, in our bid to contact this client toredeem the demurrage which
his consignment had accumulated we discovered that our client was theformer
president of the Federal Republic of Zaire,
who died of illness after he was de-throned in the same year the consignment
was entrusted into our care. Since the death of our client, President
Mobutouseseseko, none of his benefactors has come forward toclaim the
consignment with us, which means that non of his relatives or aids had any
knowledge of this consignment.Hence out of curiosity I decided to secretly
open the two boxes that our client deposited in our vault. And to my
surprise I discovered that the two boxes that were registered as treasurer
by our client actually contained a considerable amount of money in United
States Dollars amounting to about US$30million Dollar.
Since this development I have been nursing plans secretly. I also found out
from enquiries and the foreign media that our late client siphoned a lot of
money from his country while he was in office as head of state. It is my
conviction that the consignment in our vault was part of the money that our
client iphoned and now that he is deadthere is no trace to this money in our
care. I am now soliciting your noble assistance to assistant me in
transferring this money out of South Africa to your country form immediate
investment with yourassistance.I have also decided that you will generously
be entitled to 40% of the total amount.
Upon the receipt of your reply confirming your willingness to assist me of
this transaction, I willimmediately arrange and transfer all the right
ofownership of this consignment to your name to facilitate your easy
clearance and transfer of the complete funs to your country. Secondly, I
will arrange for the consignment already labelled as family treasure to be
lifted by diplomatic means to our security company's correspondence in
oversea where I will meet you. You have nothing to worry about, as I will be
there to assist you in anyway necessary with paper documentation. This
transaction is 100% risk free. Please reply to the above email address.
Thanks.
Yours faithfully,
MR. MARK ALI
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