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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: smith tabilla <smithtab20051@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 04:50:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: urgent business proposal
SMITH TABILLA
TEL: 27-83-533-2866
ATT:MANAGING DIRECTOR/SIR/MADAM
CONFIDENTIAL
I know you will be surprised to receive this letter.
First I must introduce myself. I am Mr. Smith Tabilla,
of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Central Africa)
and former Aide De Camp of the late President, Laurent
Kabila. I got your contact through South Africa
Information Exchange (S.A.I.E) regarding your
trustworthiness, as such I decided to ask for your
assistance to transfer some money out of South Africa
into your personal or company account.
The late President, Laurent Kabila, successfully
toppled the former President of my country the late
Mobutu Sese Seko and ruled peacefully for a few
months. However, barely three (4) years ago the Tutsis
from Goma the northern part of my country rebelled
against the government. Ever since then, my country
has been at war. Due to this war, public funds and
properties have been constantly looted and stolen by
soldiers and Government Functionaries.
I was very dedicated and committed to winning the war against
rebels until recently when I found out that Senior
Army Officers and Government Functionaries were busy
helping themselves with Government funds and
properties and sending them to foreign countries. Due
to this development, when I and my two colleagues were
assigned by the President to convey some money to his
guest house, we saw this as a golden opportunity to
divert this money which we shared and I got a total
sum of Twenty one Million United States Dollars (US$21m).
I quickly made arrangements, and transferred it
through diplomatic means to South Africa and was
deposited at the Vault of a reputable Security and
Finance Company. I am presently living in South Africa
as an asylum seeker and the financial Laws of South
Africa do not allow Asylum seekers certain financial
rights. In view of this, coupled with the way in which
this money was acquired, I decided not to invest this
money anywhere in Africa.
For your efforts, I am prepared to offer you 20% of
the total sum while 5% will be set aside for all
reasonable expenses incurred during this transaction
by both parties.
Note that this transaction is 100% risk-free and the
major thing I ask from you is complete assurance that
the money will be safe when transferred to your
account. If you are interested, please contact me on
the above telephone or email address. I shall be most
grateful if you maintain the confidentiality of this
matter. Contact me on phone after replying my letter
by e-mail.
I am looking forward to your urgent reply.
Best regards,
SMITH TABILLA (MR)
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