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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: d_dube_1@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:37:09 +0200
Subject: URGENT
Attn Sir,
It is my pleasure contacting you for a great business opportunity, though it might sound so surprising to you, but it is a fact. It involves the sum of ($15,000.000.00 USD) Fifteen Million United States Dollars) waiting for transfer from my Bank in South Africa, to any overseas Bank account.
I am writing you in trust as a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money. I am Mr DAVID DUBE, the Head of Audit Department [H.A.D], with ‘ALMAGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA ‘[ABSA] I discovered this sum of money in an account during the course of end of year auditing in an account opened with this bank in 1996 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account again which has virtually remained dormant, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a (heir) hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited.
According to my findings, the owner of this account is Mr. CHRIS GROOVE, a foreigner, and an industrialist who died since 1999 in a ghastly motor accident on his way to Cape- Town. from my findings no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that CHRIS GROOVE until his death was a member of board of trustees GOLD MINERS(PTY).
This money can only be approved for payment only to a foreigner, thus I contacted you to purport yourself/company as late Mr. CHRIS GROOVE next of kin. We will be obtaining an affidavit of fact and other powerful back up documents from the federal high court of Johannesburg South Africa which will give a legal seal in other to authenticate you as the sole beneficiary of this fund.
If interested, we will sign a binding agreement that will bind us together.I got your contact from the international chamber of commerce here in South Africa; though I have not revealed this business to any other person because of my sensitive position in the Bank.
You are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business; so please reply urgently so that I will inform you on the next step to take. Send your private or office telephone number where I can reach you for more details and also to discuss the mode of sharing.
I need your full co-operation to make this transaction work perfectly because the management of the Bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable.I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down, and this business is 100% risk free hence I will be monitoring the whole transactions here.
I await your urgent response.
David Dube [HAD] +27-73-999-1209
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