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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: "Francis Doe" <f_df1x@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: f_df2x@yahoo.co.in
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:52:15 +0200
Subject: For your considerations & acceptance
Sir,
I wanted to send this communication to you through insured courier service like DHL or FEDEX due to its confidentiality nature and your high status personality, but please accept this medium of communication because of time factor. I am the chairman of the contract Award Committee of Gold and Natural Resources Ministry here in South Africa, for security reasons, I may not wish to disclose the most important things for now until I hear from you.
After due deliberation with my partners, I decided to forward to you this proposal. We seek your partnership to receive the sum of Fourty Five Million, Two Hundred and Fifteen Thousand United State Dollars (US$45,215,000.00) into your safe bank account(s). The transfer would be made at instalmentals.
This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us under the budget allocation to my ministry and the bill has been approved for payment by the concerned government parastatals. The contract was duely awarded, executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual cost of the
contract. Now, we are left with the balance of US$45.215Million as the over invoiced amount, which we have deliberately over estimated for our own use. This amount is presently floating as a debt owe to a contractor to be named by my parter and I. So we decided to present your bank account as the contractor's bank account for his payment/transfer.
The law forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign accounts and this why we need your participation in the claim by providing a secured bank account for this transfer. We have agreed to share the money equally among three of us. Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk. We have been exercising patience for this privilege for so long not until the presidential announcement last week, that all foreign contractors owed be paid forthwith, this will enable the presidency reconcile our debt ratio with the outside world and to most of us, this is a lifetime blessing we cannot afford to miss.
Upon your indication to sincerely and fully co-operate with us, a payment application would be sent to you via email to initiate this claim/trasfer. Note that the following information: Your contact address, private phone/fax numbers and your identification will enable us seek/secure official approval of the payment/transfer from the concerned government quarters/ministries within 3-4 banking days.
As soon as we confirm receipt of this money in your nominated bank account, my partner and I will come over to arrange for our own share and possibly invest part of this money in your country. Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout this transaction.
I shall furnish you with some details about myself and this proposal as soon as I hear from you. Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.
Thanks & Best Regards.
Engr. Francis Doe
(PLEASE REPLY TO: f_df3x@yahoo.co.in)
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