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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: "From Mobutu" <mubemobutu@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:57:22 -0800
Subject: Proposal
Attn: Sir,
You may be surprise to receive this email since you do not know
me. I am the wife of the late president of Democratic Republic
Of Zaire,President Mobutu Sese Seko, ( now The Republic of
Congo under the leadership of the son of Mr.Laurent Kabila).
I presume you are aware there is a financial dispute between my
family ( THE MOBUTUS)and the present civilian Government. This
is based on what the believe as bad and corrupt governance on
my late husband part. May his soul rest in perfect peace. As
you might have heard how a lot of my husband bank account in
Switzerland and North America have been frozen.(The Swiss froze
a US$2.75 million villa on Lake Geneva)
How did he get so rich? Well, for example, when the German
company OTRAG was looking for a place to test satellite rocket
launchers, Mobutu gave them a chunk of his country as big as
Belgium. The fee was $50 million, which Joe(mobutu) simply
deposited in his personal account. He managed to the money
coming in and sales of raw resources going out. , he was simply
in control of the mining concessionaire. In 1978, the Gecamines
write him a check for the entire year's export sales ($1.2
billion).
Following the above named reasons, I am soliciting for your
humble and confidential assistance to take custody of Ten
Million United States Dollars ( US$10 000,000.00 ), also to
front for me in the areas of business you desire profitable.
These funds have secretly been deposited into a confidential
Security Company,where it can easily be withdrawn or paid to a
recommended beneficiary.The funds will be released to you by
the Security Company,based on my recommendations,on that note,
you will be presented as my partner who will be fronting for me
and my family in any subsequent ventures.
We have decided to give 20% to you, if you are able to help us
claim this consignment. We have also decided to give you any
money spent on phone calls or traveling expenses in the course
of this transaction at the end of the transaction.Please, I
need your entire support and co-operation for the success of
this transaction, your utmost confidentiality and secrecy is
highly required, due to my family's present predicament.I
sincerely will
appreciate your willingness to assist us as soon as possible.I
will want you to contact my son who is presently in the refugee
camp in the Accra Ghana under the united nations refugee camp
in Accra Ghana.All correspondence must be address to
mubemobutu@yahoo.com and you can also call him on this
telephone number +233-244-774480 for more information on how we
can proceed in this transaction. Please indicate your interest
by sending your telephone and fax number to him
I sincerely will appreciate your acknowledgement as soon as
possible.
Best regards,
Madam Mobutu Sese-Seko
YOU CAN CHECK OUT MORE DETAILS OF MOBUTU AND FAMILY FROM BELOW
WEB PAGES
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/M/Mobutu.asp
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0197738.html
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