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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: aa nn99 <aa_nn99@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:52:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Requesting Assistance
Dear Sir
My name is Mr Harry Ngubane. I am a senior government official in the department of works and housing of the republic of South Africa. I got your contact address through the Internet. I am the chairman of the tender board in the works and housing department. I am the one who is responsible for supervising and awarding of contracts, this includes supplying of building materials and construction of ultra modern shopping complexes as well as low cost housing projects in South Africa. My two colleagues and I serve on the board and deliberately inflated and over invoiced the contract amount leaving an access of US$ 18.5M (Eighteen million and five hundred thousand united states dollars).
At the completion of the contract, the real contract amount was paid to the original contractor leaving the access of which was reported to the Reserve Bank, that it belonged to the sub contractor that handled part of the original contract. But the company we submitted as the beneficially was a non-existing foreign company which seemed by us as an attempt to divert the money for our private use.
Right now, this amount is due for payment and is floating in the treasury and is not attached to anyone. We are only three people who know the origin of the said funds, but we cannot claim it by ourselves hence we are looking for a trustworthy person or foreign company whose name we can use to claim the money. And subsequently transfer the money to any account that maybe furnished to us with whom well share the money, thats- why we contacted you for assistance.
This is strictly a business deal and risk free and secured as we are going to use our official positions to source all necessary approvals legitimizing the contract as genuinely executed by you, and copies of all approval documents shall be sent to you be the transfer as proof of original transfer, proving the funds to be clean and free of any illicit trade, drug or money laundering. All necessary arrangements have been put in place in all relevant departments for immediate approval of payment once an account has been submitted.
For your cooperation we have agreed to give to you 25% of the total amount on the conclusion of the transaction, 72% shall be kept for the three of us for investment in your country while 3% will be used to settle any miscellaneous expenditure incurred in the process of the transfer.
Please if you are interested in this proposal, I would like you to respond immediately on this e-mail address or through this Telephone number +27 83 999 7277 for further instruction on how to proceed.
This transaction is expected to take 21 working days from the date of receipt of the account information where the money will be transferred.
Yours faithfully
Mr Harry Ngubane
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