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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: "Dr.steven dube" <st_dube3@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:28:31 +0200
Subject: Treat as urgent.
BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
FROM;DR. STEVEN DUBE
GAUTENG JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA
TEL. +27-78-128 4805.
Dear Friend,
I know definitely, you will be surprise to received this letter from me
first of all, let me introduce myself. I am Dr. Steven Dube the auditor of
African Bank of South Africa (A.B.S.A). There is an account opened in this
bank in 1991 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account again, 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. Clayton Hamilton a foreigner and the
manager of petrol chemical service (Pty) South Africa, a chemical engineer
by profession and he died since 1999. No other person knows about this
account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and
my investigation proves to me that his company does not know anything about
this account and the amount involved is (US$15,000,000.00).
I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad but I don't
know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this
money can not be approved to any local bank here but can only be approved to
any foreign account because the former owner of the account is Mr. Clayton
Hamilton was a foreigner. I know that this message will come to you as a
surprise as we don't know ourselves before, but be sure that it is real and
a genuine business. I only got your contact address from the chamber of
commerce here in South Africa with the believe in god that you will never
let me down in this business, you are the only person that I have contacted
for this business for now, So please reply urgently.
I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with a
foreign account as the real beneficiary. I need your co-operation to make
this work fine, because the management of my bank is ready to approve this
payment to any foreigner who has the correct information to this account,
which I will give to you when assured of your capability to handle such
amount in strict confidence and trust, according to my instructions and my
advice for our mutual benefit because I don't want to make any mistake.
I will use my position and influence on other staffs to effect the legal
approvals and onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate
clearance from foreign payment department. With assurance that this money
will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for the sharing
and other investment. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given
25% out of the total amount, 70% will be for me, while 5% will be for
expenses, both parties might have incurred during the process of this
transaction.
Yours truly,
Dr. Steven Dube.
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