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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: "Johnson Maduka" <johnson_maduka6@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:35:39 -0500
Subject: ZIMBABWE
Good Day,
with warm hearts I offer my friendship, and my greetings, and I hope this
letter meets you in good time. It will be surprising to you to receive this
proposal from me since you do not know me personally. However, I am
sincerely seeking your confidence in this transaction, which I propose with
my free mind and as a person of integrity.
My name is Johnson Maduka Zhiri, the son of Maduka ZHIRI , a farmer from
Zimbabwe, murdered in the land dispute in my country. As led by my instinct,
I decided to contact you through email as it is the only means I can
contact anybody since I am cutting off ties with Zimbabwe for now. I
apologize if this is not acceptable to you.
The purpose of this letter is to seek your most needed assistance in this
business venture. Due to the land and political problems in Zimbabwe, as a
result of President Robert Mugabe's introduction of new Land Act Reform
wholly affecting the rich white farmers and the few rich black farmers, all
white farmers were asked to surrender their farms to the government for
re-distribution and infact to his political party members and my father
though black was the treasury of the farmers association and a strong member
of an opposition party that did not support the president's idea.
He then ordered his party members and the police under his pay row to invade
my father's farm and burn down everything in the farm. They killed my father
and took away a lot of items from his farm.
After the death of my father, our local pastor and a close friend of my
father handed us over will documents with instructions from my father that
we should leave Zimbabwe incase anything happen to him. The will documents
has a certificate of deposit, confirming a cash deposit totaling Fifteen
million five hundred thousand united state dollars. [15.5m] Kept in custody
for us in a security company unknown to the company that the content is
money hence it was deposited as personal belongings. This money was
deposited with this Private Security Company for safety and security
reasons, and was to be used for the purchase of land, new machines and
chemicals establishment of new farms in Botswana.
This violent and barbaric act by Mugabe has since led to the death of my
beloved mother and kid sister and other innocent lives.I was continually
threatened to abandon my inheritance from my father after he was murdered. I
resisted for a while, but when the danger became unbearable, and I survived
two murder attempts, I fled Zimbabwe with the help of my father's close
friend Mr. John Casahans from Australia also a farmer who was leaving in
Zimbabwe with us but left with his family following this ugly development I
have tried to reach him but all to no avail.
I am currently staying in the Netherlands where I am seeking political
asylum. In fact my decision to come here to seek asylum, is because the
security company has a branch here, I have contacted them to move the safe
deposit from their office in Harare to the Netherland here, which they have
since done.
I need to transfer this money to an account and invest part of the money.
Since the law of Netherlands prohibits a refugee (asylum seeker) to open any
bank account or to be involved in any financial transaction, this is why I
am seeking a genuine and reliable partner, whose account this money can be
transferred, hence this proposal to you.
You have to understand that this decision taken by me is a very big and
brave one, and it entrusts my future in your hands, as a result of the safe
keeping of this money.
If you accept to assist me, all I want you to do for me, is to assist with
arrangements to claim the deposit from the security company from their
office here in The Netherlands, as it has now been transferred from Zimbabwe
to Holland. The company will be legally informed of you representing me.
For your assistance, I have two options for you. Firstly you can choose to
have 20% of the money for your assistance, and helping me open an account
for the money to be deposited here, or you can go into partnership with me
for the proper profitable investment of the money in your country.
Whichever the option you want, please to notify me in your reply.
I have also set aside 1 % of this money for all kinds of expenses that come
our way in the process of this transaction, and 4% for Charity donation. If
you prefer to accept the 20% for your moral and financial assistance then
the balance will be left in the account here for me.
Please, I want you to maintain absolute secrecy for the purpose of this
transaction.
Your reply should be sent to my private email address only
johnsonmaduka@fastermail.com
I look forward to your reply and co-operation, and I thank you in advance as
I anticipate your co operation.
Sincerely,
Johnson Maduka Zhiri.
johnsonmaduka@fastermail.com
PLEASE YOU CAN READ ABOUT PROBLEMS IN ZIMBABWE FROM
THE LINKS BELOW.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm
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