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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: "david thabo" <david_thabo85@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: davidthabo@netscape.net
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:14:10 +0000
Subject: Please look into this project!!!
CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT
Attention: President/CEO,
I hope that you are well today. I am the Manager Audit/Claims department in
ABSA bank of South Africa.
With due respect, I decided to contact you over this business financial
transaction worth the sum of US$ 22Million (Twenty-Two Million United States
Dollars) in other to entrust this fund into your bank account.
This is an ABANDONED FUND, which I found out belongs to one of our
customers, ANDREAS SCHRANNER (German) who died along with his entire family
on 25th July 2000 in a plane crash disaster, I was very fortune to meet the
deceased file when I was arranging the old and abandoned customers file of
2000-2006 in other to submit to the management accordingly for documentation
purposes. Following the South African banking policy, it was obviously
indicated and signed lawfully that if such Funds remains unclaimed after 3
(three) years without somebody been a foreigner apply and claim the Fund as
the next of kin, the Fund will be transferred into the Government Treasury
as an unclaimed.
This will cause other staff of my bank to notice that the owner of the Fund
has died. So the request of you as a foreigner is necessarily needed for the
claim because a citizen of South Africa cannot come forward to claim this
Fund since the law does not pave a way for an indigene to claim such fund.
And since the real beneficiary of the fund died, the bank is expecting the
next of kin to apply for the release of this fund for him or her without
delay, but unfortunately I learnt through the investigations which I carried
out that there is nobody behind who can come and claim the fund, so I need
you to act fast for us not to loose this opportunity, which you may know
this opportunity come once in a life time.
You shall provide me with your details so that you and I can claim this
money, so that we can raise an affidavit of fact that you are the
beneficiary of this fund in order for us to move it to your bank account
where it will be comfortable for you and me.
SIXTY PERCENT (60%) of the total fund will be for me, THIRTY FIVE PERCENT
(35%) for you, FIVE PERCENT (5%) will be for unexpected expenses, which may
occur during the process, thereafter you will help me to visit your country
for sharing the money according to the percentage indicated above.
For the immediate transfer of this fund into your bank account as arranged,
please note that you should keep this business secret until you confirm the
transfer into your bank account which you will provide, and this transaction
is 100% risk free. All necessary documents related to this and which will
prove that you made a legal claim of inheritance shall be provided. Please
view details of the plane crash on the website below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
It is true that I prayed before I was pushed forward to contact you for this
business, but I want you to also assure me solemnly that you are a
trustworthy, reliable, honest and capable to avoid cheating in this
transaction.
Yours Truly,
Mr. David Thabo.
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