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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: "raphealajoel rapheala" <raphealajoel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:39:43 +0100
Subject: Re: Invitation to a Rewarding Partnership.
*Mr. Rapheal Joel *
Pretoria 0001, Republic of South Africa
Private Fax: (+27) 115 075 327
Direct Fax: (+871) 763 427 871
Email:raphealjoel@yahoo.com.au
11th July, 2006
Attn: The President/CEO
*Re: Invitation to a Rewarding Partnership.*
It is my great pleasure to write you about this high rewarding business
transaction. I got your contact from network online and I hope that you will
be capable and reliable to handle this confidential mutually beneficial
business and that all confidential information will be handled with the same
strict professionalism that you expect from me.
I am a top official in the Presidency. With the cooperation of two
other officials, we have in our possession an over due payment in US
funds. These funds represent certain percentage of a contract value
executed by a foreign company, which was deliberately over invoiced to
the tune of *Twenty Four Million, Six Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars (US$24,600,000.00). *The actual contract amount haven been
paid to the contractor, it is the excess balance of *US$24.6M* that we
now intend to transfer immediately to your designated company or
personal account.
The South African government strongly believe that foreign direct
investments are the engines to sustainable economic development, to that
extent, government have continued to encourage foreign investments by
promptly paying all debts owed foreign contractors. These have provided
foreign investors new or expanded investment in South Africa with rich
rewards and wealth of opportunities – the rewards certainly exceed the risk
by unimaginable high margins. With the cooperation of some top officials at
the Department of Finance and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), we will
include the excess balance bill for approval and immediate transfer to your
account without any hitch.
We are seeking your *MORAL* and *FINANCIAL* cooperation to be the
beneficiary of the excess amount because the law forbids serving government
officials from owning or operating foreign accounts. I have the authority of
my colleagues to propose 25% compensation to you and 75% compensation to us.
You must assure us of total confidentiality. The transaction is *100% SAFE,
HITCH-FREE AND LEGITIMATE,* and we strongly insist on a 100% utmost
confidentiality as we are still in active government services. I have
reposed my confidence in you trusting that you will not betray us.
It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of the
nature described here, the assumption is that your company won a major
contract and subcontracted it to other companies. More often than not, big
trading companies and firms of unrelated fields win major contracts and
subcontract it to more specialized firms for execution.
Kindly forward your confidential telephone and fax numbers, company
information, banking details i.e. bank name, address, account number, swift
code and other pertinent information to my *Private **Fax number: +27 115
075 327 and Direct Fax line: +871 763 427 871** *upon your acceptance of my
proposal. I look forward to your positive response and I urge you to look
forward to a rewarding business relationship.
Yours truly,
*Mr. Rapheal Joel.*
* *
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