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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: rbrooks@webmail.co.za
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 12:17:02 +0200
Subject: CONTACT MR BROOKS URGENT
Dear Beloved,
It is indeed my pleasure to write you this letter, which I believe will be a surprise to you as we have never met before, and I am deeply sorry if I have in any manner disturbed your privacy. Please forgive this un-usual manner of contacting you, but this particular letter is of exceptional and very private for the sake of human nature. These might absolutely going to be a great doubt and distrust in your heart in respect of this email, coupled with the fact that, so many individuals have taken possession of the Internet to facilitate their nefarious
deeds, thereby making it extremely difficult for genuine and legitimate business/God fearing class of persons to get attention and recognition any longer. There is no way for me to know whether I will be properly understood, but it is my obligation/duty to write and reach out to you for assistance.
My name is Richard Brooks, a brother at saint Thomas-more Catholic Church in Pretoria. Last fourth night we visited the church for prayer and after the prayers, a woman who is also a church member came to me and approached me and narrated her life stories. Her name is Mrs. Joy Mdaba and she is a member of WOMEX in Zimbabwe. Her husband was a big farmer and victim of the crises in Zimbabwe which suddenly took his life, as a result of a new land act reform introduced by President Robert Mugabe. As the manager of her husband farms, she keeps all important documents for her husband. Among the documents is a file containing documents her late husband used to deposit fund with a finance institution here in South Africa. According to her, this money was meant for the purchase of new machines and chemicals for the farms and establishments of a new farm in Swaziland. After narrating these stories, I asked her to see me the following day with the file containing fund depositing docume!
nts. When I saw the document and the amount involved is USD28.2M (Twenty eight million two hundred thousand
dollars). Because of my position and what is happening in the world today, I and my attorney took her to the financial institution for verifications and we confirmed everything as genuine and original but coupled with the enquiries, we seen to be fortunate because we met one of the top bank official there who promised to help us for the smooth and fast transfer of the funds if we can find the foreign partner because his reasons for the fast transfer is that this woman is a refugee here in South Africa and refugees are not allowed to have such amount of money in any financial institution in South Africa without the citizenship id book. So that reason we need a foreigner which we can transfer the money to his or her account for proper investments in their country
Now am writing this letter to entrust the life / future of this woman and her family to you believing that you will not betray the trust! And confidence I may have in you. All I am asking is your acceptance for us to transfer this fund to your bank account in your country or your overseas nominated bank account keeping this fund in your custody
for this woman and her family to join you for a proper investment under your supervision. The woman has agreed on two options of compensation for your assistance. Firstly you can choose to have a certain percentage of the money or go into partnership with her for a proper profitable investment of the money in your country. If you do not prefer a partnership, she is willing to give you 25% of the total fund. She will also mapped out 5% of the total fund for all kinds of expenses that might be incurred in the process of the transaction.
If you are willing to assist this woman, please contact me immediately on my e-mail address above.
Best Regards,
Mr. Richard Brooks
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