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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: markus thambo <engr_mthambo@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: m_thambo01@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 12:46:09 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Can We Do This Together?.
Attention: President/Director,
I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the Gold and
Natural resources ministry here in South Africa, for security reasons, I may
not wish to disclose the most important thing for now until I hear from you.
After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you
this business proposal, we want you to assist us receive the sum of Twenty
eight million, six hundred thousand united state bills ($28.6M) into
your account. This fund resulted from an over-invoiced
contract awarded by us under the budget allocation to my ministry and
the bill was approved for payment by the concerned ministries. The
contract was executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid his
actual cost of the contract. Now, we are left with the balance of
$28.6M as the over invoiced amount, which we have deliberately over
estimated for our own use. Please note that the law forbids civil servants to
operate or own foreign accounts hence this contact, we have agreed to share
the money in the following percentages: 30 for you, 60 for us 10 for tax as may be
required by your government, because we dont need anything
that will delay this money when it arrive in your bank account.
Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk
hence the business was carefully planned before it was successfully
executed and we the officials involved in the deal have put many years in
service to our ministry. 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 indication of your interest to fully co-operate with us, a payment
application/information form will be sent to you via email for completion.
your private phone number and email address will be needed for
easy communication to enable us seek/secure approval of the fund
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 your country 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.
Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.
Best regards.
Engr.Markus Thambo.
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