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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: hagacosser@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:58:35 +0200
Subject: 12/10/05 REP.
ATTN: DIRECTOR/CEO.
REQUEST FOR URGENT
TRANSFER
In my quest for a reliable and trusted partner for a
highly important andlucrative venture cum investment, I
came across your contact as a
reliable partner for this venture.
I am Mr.Haga Cosser, one of the senior
Accountants of
AMALGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (ABSA). To highlight you
on this proposal, there
is an account opened in this bank since 1980 till 1990
after which, nobody has operated on this account again till
date. After going through some old
files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit
this money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr.
Ben Andreas, a foreigner, and a miner at Kruger gold co.,
a geologist by profession who died since 1990. No other
person knows about this
and my investigation further proved to me that his company
does not know anything about this account and the amount
involved as he made it his
personal account. The money outstanding before his death
was (USD 26 Million) Twenty Six Million United States
Dollars.
I am now contacting you as a foreigner because this money
cannot be approved to a national with a local bank account
here. But can only be
approved to any foreign account because the money is in US
dollars and the former owner, a foreigner. I implore you to
act as foreigner and
beneficiary to the fund as I will then intimate you on the
processes abound as well as procure all the necessary
documents required to lay
claim to the money. If you are capable and willing to
handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according
to my instructions and advice for our
mutual benefit I shall highly appreciate. I need trusted
person in this business because I do not want to make
mistakes; I need your strong
assurance and trust. With my position now in the office I
can effect transfer of this money to any foreigner's
reliable account, which you can
provide with assurance that this money will be intact
pending my arrival in your country for disbursement. On the
alternative, you can come down here to
South Africa forus to meet one to one .
Send me your private telephone and fax numbers upon
receipt of this proposal, if you genuinely want to assist
and be a co-partner. I will
also wants us to meet face to face, to enable us sign a
binding agreement.As soon as you receive this money into a
foreign account or any account
of your choice where the fund will be safe. I will proceed
to your country for onward percentage distributions and
investment. I need your
full co-operation to make this work because the management
is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner, who has
correct information of
this account, which I will give to you later immediately.I
will use my position and influence to effect legal
approvals and onward
transfer of this money to your account with appropriate
clearance forms of the ministries and foreign exchange
departments. At the
conclusion of this business, for your assistance, 25% of
the total amount will be accrue for you, 70% for me, while
5% will be for expenses both
parties might have incurred during the process of the
transfer .
I implore you to maintain the absolute confidentiality of
this transaction
Your earliest response is urgently awaited.
Truely Yours,
Haga Cosser
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