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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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• 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 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.
  • zulufinancierconsultant1@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "TONY MARTINS" <tonymart_33@myway.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:35:53 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: URGENT MATTER.


Attn: VICTIM-FULLNAME.



Dear VICTIMNAME,



Thanks for your email message of today 23rd June 2006. Infact, the contents of your email was well cleared and understood.



Intact, I wouldn’t know what to say, we have been receiving junk mails all over the world regarding such mails people received from fraudsters and because of these matters, we will not know who to trust in business.



As a matter of fact, I am a Christian with three children, I will not be per take in such crime, this business is hundred percent real, I am very sorry ok and be careful. Now, we have to have a solid agreement that will guild us in this business. Before doing so, are you going to promise me that you will handle this business with trust? If yes, before we proceed, I will like to have all your full information’s

.

I will not hesitate to give you details on how we shall proceed. In my over 15 years career, I have never written a letter as heavy as this before and I must tell you that I am extremely cautious as to who to do this with but something seems to be compelling me to go ahead with you.

May be I should tell you more about myself. My parents had migrated from South Africa with the help of missionary in the apartheid years and I was born here in UK and have been living here as a minority. You will agree with me that the Aids/HIV epidemic is killing my people in Africa and if this fund is processed out we can establish an organization to meet the needs of dying souls over there. If we do not claim this fund, Her Majesty Treasury will confiscate it and probably use it for political campaign and of what good would this be? Moreover, the deceased had made much of his money from the South African Goldmine and I think it is justifiable to give back to the people.

The process to claim this fund is called Probate Claim Procedure. This will require me to provide probate claim availability document from my company to the Probate Court for claim. It will take me a day or two to prepare this document and make it available to the Probate Court to confirm that the fund is available for probate claim. Once I confirm that the Probate court has made the probate available, I will then forward you with a draft letter you will write to the Registrar of the Probate Court seeking for the said probate fund. In order for me to be able to prepare the documentation in your favor to the Probate Court as the next of kin of this probate fund, I will require the following information from you:

Your full Name; Address(home and office); Telephone and fax(home and office);Date of Birth; Valid ID i.e. driver's license.

The above are the information needed at this preliminary stage. These documents shall be used positively to identify you as the next of kin. Moreover, your bank account details will be needed when you will be writing directly to the Probate Court for claim. However, for the purposes of this transaction, I advise that you set up a new account with zero balance. This way, we will be both confident and it will be much easier to audit the account at the completion of the transaction. The fact that it is a new account does not matter as their will be supportive documentation to justify the wire transfer to the account. The usual thing your government will do is to tax the fund. At the completion of the transaction I will give you 20% for your role while the remain 80% will be invested while its profit will be given to charity. The amount involved here is $45.5 Million USD.Depending on how fast we can move and the probate court as well, I am looking at 3-4 weeks to conclude the
whole of this deal.

As soon as I receive the information, I will call you for further discussion.



Thanks and God blessBest RegardsTONY MARTINS



Please who has this email id: &lt;zulufinancierconsultant1@yahoo.ca&gt;



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