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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: yusuf mohamed <ymoha11@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 05:02:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: *Personal Letter* From Mr. Yusuf Mohammed
From: Mr. Yusuf Mohammed
Auditing and Accounting Unit
Foreign Operations Department,
AMALGANATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA
(A.B.S.A). JOHANNESBURG BRANCH
PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
Good day,
I am Mr. Yusuf Mohammedthe chief auditor of AMALGANATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (A.B.S.A) and i have just found out that there is an account in this bank in 2001 and since 2002 nobody has operate on this account again. After going through some old files in this record, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it would be for feited for nothing.
The owner of this account is LATE MR. CHRIS WILLIAMS,a foreigner and a Zimbabwean based farmer, an Agriculturist by profession and he died since 2002.No other person knows this Account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation prove to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account and the amount involve is ($16.MI! LLION) Sixteen Million United States Dollars. I want to transfer this money into your safe overseas account as soon as possible,I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can only approved to any foreign account because the money is in United States Dollars and the former owner LATE MR. CHRIS WILLIAMS is a foreigner as well. Knowing that this massage will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before.
We will sign an agreement, but be sure that it is real and a genuine business. Considering my position as a public servant,you are the only person that I have contacted in this business; so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take immidiately. Send also your private phone and fax numbers including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. Meanwhile,I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you as soon as you indicate your sincerity to co-operate with me, and capability to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my instruction and advice for our mutual benefit because this opportunity may never come again in my life. With my position now in the office I don't want anything to jeopardize my job so I advise that we should make secrecy and confidentiality our
primary working condition, bearing in mind that I am a public servant.
I will ! apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to co-operate. I will also use my position and influence to affect legal approval and onward transfer this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms of ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of this business, you will be rewarded for your assistance and co-operation from the total fund transferred, while for every expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of the transfer,i have also mapped out certain amount to pay back all those expense. I will be expecting your urgent response to enable us proceed with the project immediately, thank you and have a nice day. In the light of above, the following will be required to achieve this goal to avoid mistake.
1. Full Names....................................
2. Residential Address.......................
3. Phone Number..............................
4. Fax Number..................................
5. Occupation....................................
6. Sex................................................
7. Age...............................................
8. Nationality.....................................
9. Present Country.................................
Your positive response is a key to the successful completion of this transfer.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Yusuf Mohammed
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