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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: "khumalo j" <j_khumalo17@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: josephkhumalo01@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:57:29 -0900
Subject: MR. JOSEPH KHUMALO,
Mr. Joseph Khumalo
ABSA Bank Limited,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
E-mail address,joekhumalo@msn.com
Dear Sir,
I am Mr. Joseph Khumalo manager of bills/exchange at the foreign
remittance department of ABSA Bank. In my department, we discovered an
abandoned sum of US$14,700,000.00 (Fourteen Million, Seven Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars only) in an account that belonged to one of
our customers who died along with his entire family, on January 31 2000, in
a ghastly plane crash, and he happened to be a Foreigner. Since we got the
information about his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to
come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless
somebody applied for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, nobody has come
forward to claim this money. you should read more
about the crash on visiting this site
(www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/)http://www.alaskaair.com/E_latest.asp).
It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have
decided to establish a confidential business relationship with you, hence
by
Contacting you. We want you to present yourself as the next of kin through
your relation with the deceased, so that the funds can be remitted into
your account.
Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the government account as
unclaimed bills. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that any
account abandoned or is dormant for a period of years, is deemed closed
and all money contained therein forfeited to the government treasury
account.
Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into
the government account as an unclaimed fund on or before the end of this
financial year of 2006, when nobody come forward to lay claims. The reason
for requesting you to present yourself as next of kin, is occasioned by,
the fact that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner, and we have
access to his detailed bio data which you will hold as a weapon to present
yourself as the next of kin.
The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your
account, shall be 75% to my colleagues and I, for the role you will be
expected to play in this deal, we have agreed to give you 20% of the total
sum and 5% for the expenses we are going to encounter by the two parties
in the course of this transaction. Therefore, you are expected to reply
this letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate in this
business. After receiving your reply, you will be communicated to with
the exact steps to take.
I expect your urgent response through my email address:joekhumalo@msn.com.
With the following info.
(1) Your full name and address.
(2) Your telephone/fax and cell number
And i shall contact you for further discussion on this matter, to enable
us conclude this transaction urgently without any delay or hitch.
Please treat this business proposal as strictly confidential for security
reasons considering my official position in ABSA Bank.
Personal Regards,
Mr. Joseph Khumalo
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