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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27737072872 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Susan Morgan" <mrs.susanmorgan_t@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tsvangirai@webmail.co.za
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:54:00 +0200
Subject: [Info] READ IT: MRS. SUSAN MORGANTSVANGIRAI/ URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

FROM: MRS. SUSAN MORGAN TSVANGIRAI
18 Sunheight Randburg East
Johannesburg
South Africa.
Tel: +27 73 707 2872


Dear Sir,

Please, this may appear as a surprise to you but bear it in mind that I have
a good and beneficial intention for you. I am MRS. SUSAN MORGAN TSVANGIRAI,
the wife of MR. MORGAN TSVANGIRAI.

I got your address from the South Africa Information Exchange( SAIE) and
decided to contact you and solicit for your assistance in the transfer of a
huge sum of fund into your foreign bank account. The total sum of this fund
is £17 Million (Seventeen Million Pounds).

My husband is the leader of "Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe"
and, an active Member of Opposition Party against President Robert G.
Mugabe's hostile idea of killing white farm owners without compensation and
mercy. Presently, my husband is facing trial of HIGH TREASON which I do not
know if he will be convicted or not.

Because of my husband opposing President Robert Mugabe's bad and unfavoured
government system against white farm owners and killing of innocent souls,
the president secretly sponsored war veterans and some irritated party
members to accuse him for HIGH TREASON and ASSASINATING ATTEMPT in killing
the President.

Before this whole dilemma, my husband anticipated some dangers in the future
so, he deposited this sum of £17 Million (SEVENTEEN MILLION POUNDS) with a
private Security Company in South Africa and, in the name of our only son
(JOHN MORGAN TSVANGIRAI JR). Since the past 2 years, they have been
terrorizing my only son (JOHN MORGAN TSVANGIRAI JR) to kill but we managed
to escape him to South Africa (Neighboring country) where he is residing as
a political asylum seeker (refugee).

MY PROPOSAL IS:

1) I would like to present YOU before the Security Company where my husband
deposited this fund and the bank of South Africa as our foreign partner and
beneficiary so that the fund can be legitimately release and transfer into
your bank account for our future investment purposes.

A) According to the financial regulation in South Africa, it is impossible
for my son to operate with any financial institution, bank or handling such
a huge sum of fund. B) As a political Asylum seeker in South Africa, he is
denied the legal right to invest with any business organisation whatsoever.

This is the reason why I want this fund to be transferred into your foreign
bank account so that you will assist my son to invest this funds in your
country.

2) I offer you 30% of the total fund for your assistance while 65% will by
kept in your account for my son and me. Also, 5% will be re-embursable for
any possible expenses incurred in the process of this transfer.

MY son telephone number is +27 73 707 2872, you can contact him at anytime.

BEST REGARD

MRS. SUSAN M.TSVANGIRAI


N/B: Upon your immediate response, I will immediately arrange and send to
you all the required transfer and proof document that will empower you to
stand as his foreign partner and beneficiary to this fund. I will also send
to you the AGREEMENT that will protect your legal interest on my son behalf.

Every step to transfer this fund into your bank account will be successfully
because all PROOF DOCUMENT and "TESTAMENT WILL" of this fund to my son is
available.


Read about problems in Zimbabwe from the link 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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