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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +27731115657 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • radebe_thabo3@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • bedfordking1@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "radebe thabo" <radebe_thabo3@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:06:31 +0200
Subject: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT ASSISTANCE

FROM:MR RADEBE THABO.
24 JAMES AVENUE SANDTON
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA
TEL:+27-73-111-56-57
radebe_thabo3@hotmail.com

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT ASSISTANCE

Attn:Sir/Madam,Director.

I am Mr,MR RADEBE THABO,the son of late Thabo Douglas who was murdered by
the Zimbabwean veterans and irrate black people.Before the death of my
father on the 29th of July 2004, he was a Properous Tobacco and Coffee
farmer in Zimbabwe and one of the major sponsor/ Financier of the opposition
party - Movement For Democratic Change(MDC)in Zimbabwe.

He was also the former president of Farmers Co-operative Trade Union in
Zimbabwe.I am writing you from Johanessburg,South Africa.I got your contact
address through the South African online service and decided to write you.

I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a
tyrannical government led by the dictator President ROBERT MUGABE and
his(ZANU-PF) ruling party.

I am probably of the convinction that you are aware of the present situation
in my country Zimbabwe sequel to the land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe,
the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irrate party
members to disposes the land being occupied by whites and some rich farmers
who are opposed to his consistent stay in power and his radical and
unnecessary reforms targeted at his political opponents, this action has led
to the killing of some members of the opposition party including my
father(Paul Douglas),who did not support this ill-fated action.

But before the death of my father and the consistent threats to his life, he
anticipated some dangers and so he smuggled out the sum of US$15.m(Fitheen
Million United States Dollars), to South Africa since it is the nearest
neighbouring country and deposited it in a security company with the
intention of using it for the purchase of New farm machinery and chemicals
for Agricultural purposes in South Africa as well as a purchase of some
hectares of land in swaziland.

On the 29th July, 2004, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF)
ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him(my father) to death.
Since then, they have been terrorizing my family, but I succeeded to work
for our escape to a neighbouring country, South Africa as a political asylum
seeker (refugee)

But our position in South Africa does not permit us to open an account
or normalise this fund for any meaningful business transaction in south
Africa since we does not have a south Africa Identity Card. That is why I
want this fund to be transferred into your Norminated account so that you
will assist us to invest it in your country.

Hence,if you agree to assist us, we have two options for you, we have
agreed to go into partnership with you and your family or in the alternatve,
we offer you 25%of the money for your assistance,5% will be for the possible
expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 75% will be for
our family investment in your country,through your assistance.

I want you to understand that this fund is purely a family fund/ money and
not drug money, nor could it be classified as government fund or Money
Laundering affairs and it could be substanciated by relevant authorties by
our attorney.

It is Family fund but termed confidential because I do not want my
family to be traced to where he is presently. If you are interested in
assisting us, kindly contact me with this email address,
bedfordking1@yahoo.ca and the telephone number above. Right now,I am
presently in South Africa and the whole of my family sequel to the tensed
political situation and the fear for our lives in Zimbabwe.

I need your urgent and confidential response.
Thanks.
MR RADEBE THABO.

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