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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27786951235 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "harry kumalu" <harry8_kumalu@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:02:34 +0000
Subject: FAMILY ASSISTANT.

HARRY KUMALU,
SUITE 3 # 19 CARLTON TOLWER
JOHANNESBURG CENTRAL,
JOHANNESBURG,SOUTH AFRICA.
PHONE:+27-786-951-235.

Dear, SIR/MA

I am HARRY KUMALU, First and only son of late GEZI KUMALU, who was
murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irrate black people.Before the death
of my father on the1st of NOV 2003, he was a ProperousTobacco and Coffee
farmer in Zimbabwe and one of the major sponsor/ Financier of the
opposition party MovementForDemocratityChange(MDC)in Zimbabwe. He was also
the former vice president of Farmers Co-operative Trade Union in Zimbabwe.

I am writing you from Johanessburg,South Africa. Igot your contact email
address through the South African International Information Exchange Centre
and decided to write you. I write to solicit for your special assistance to
a family shattered by a tyrannical government led bythe dictator President
ROBERT MUGABE and his(ZANU-PF) ruling party.

I am probably of the convinction that you are aware of the present
situation in my country Zimbabwe sequel to the land and farm land crisis in
Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some
irrate party members to disposes the land being occupied by whites and some
rich farmers who are opposed to his consistent stay in power and his
radical and unnecessary reforms targeted at his politicalopponents.

This action has led to the killing of some members of the opposition party
including my beloved father ( GEZI KUMALU),who did not support this
ill-fated action. But before the death of my father and the consistent
threats to his life, he anticipated some dangers and so he smuggled out the
sum of US$20m(TWENTY MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITEDSTATES DOLLARS),
to South Africa since it is the nearest neighbouringcountry and deposited
it in a security/finance company with the intention of using it for the
purchase of New farm machinery and chemicals for Agricultural purposes in
South Africa as well as a purchase of some hectares
of land in swaziland.

On the 1st NOV, 2003, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF)
ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him(my father) to death.
Since then, they have been terrorizing me and my widowed mother, but
wesucceeded to work for our escape to a neighbouring country, South Africa
as a political asylum seeker (refugee). But our position in South Africa
does not permit me to open an account or normalise thisfund for any
meaningful business transaction in south Africa since I doesnot have a
south Africa Identity Card. That is why I want this fund to be transferred
into your Norminated account so that you will assist me to invest it in
your country. Hence,if you agree to assist us, we have two optionsfor you,
we have agreed to go into partnership with you and your family or in the
alternatve, we offer you 20%of the money for your assistance, 5%will be for
the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction,while
75%will be for our family investment in your country,through your
assistance.

I want you to understand that this fund is purely afamily fund/ money and
not drug money, nor could it be classified asgovernment fund or Money
Laundering affairs and it could be substanciated byrelevant authorties by
our attorney.It is Family fund but termedconfidential because I do not want
myself to be traced to where i'm presently. If youare interested in
assisting us, kindly contact me with this email address,and the telephone
number above. Right now, I am presently in south Africa with my widowed
mother and my younger sister and the whole of my family sequel to the
tensed political situation and the fear for our lives in Zimbabwe. I need
your urgent and confidential response.

Thanks. Best regards

HARRY KUMALU,

(For the Family )

N/B.For some background information please visit thefollowing web link to
read some news on the British Broadcasting
Corporation web site:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2192947.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1503964.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3328163.stm

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