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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a "Zimbabwe" scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • jamespobeni@yahoo.com
  • jamespobeni@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "james pobeni" <jamespobeni61@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:16:16 -0900
Subject: I need your help please.

Dear: Sir / madam,

I know you will be surprised to receive this proposal. Actually I got your
contact address from the Internet here in South Africa when I was making an
intensive research for my investment in your country. Then, I decided to
contact you directly. First I must introduce myself. My name is James
Pobeni, the only son of the late Mr. David Pobeni of Zimbabwe.

During the current crisis against the farmers of Zimbabwe by the supporters
of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our
country, he ordered all the white and rich black farmers to surrender their
farms to his party members and their followers. My father was one of the
best farmers in the country and a major financier/sponsor of the opposition
party [Movement for Democratic Change MDC, and knowing that my father did
not support the president Political ideology, the president’s supporters
invaded my father’s farm, traced him from the eastern Harare where he went
for a meeting of the farmers association and gunned him down and took over
our farmlands.

After the death of my father on the 12th April 2000, I decided to move out
of Zimbabwe for the safety of my surviving family {my aged mother and my
sister}. Before the death of my father, he has already sold most of the
family businesses, as if he foresaw the looming danger and drawn my
attention to a deposited cash asset of USD$18,000,000.00 Million, he
realized from the sales of our farmland and profits maximizes. His
intentions were to establish new farms in Swaziland and Malawi before the
ugly incidence that took away his life. This fund is presently being kept
away in security Company firm based here in Johannesburg South Africa and
the contract expired last month.

I am looking for any reliable person overseas who is willing to help me and
my mother and sister to transfer this money out from South Africa and use it
for investment in his/her country because we are asylum seekers here in
South Africa and we can not open or operate a non-resident account through
which this fund will be channeled out into a nominated overseas account.
This is our reason of contact to you, believing that you could be trusted to
be part of my family in the management of this fund.

If my proposition is considered, for assisting us to transfer this money to
your country, we will offer you 30% of the total fund, and 5% of the total
will be set aside to cover any expenses incurred during this transaction,
65% will be for me and my family to invest in your country under your
supervision. We are obliged to inform you that we do not force you to help
us but from your sincere mind or to take undue advantage of our present
predicament. What we need is your absolute consent and supports that we are
safe in your hands in building this confidence reposed upon you from a
distance family.

Please contact us through our E-mail: jamespobeni@yahoo.com or
jamespobeni@myway.com for more insight. Note that relevant legal document to
this asset is intact that empowers us of the legal ownership of the asset.

Best Regards,
James Pobeni For the family.

You can read more of this news in this websites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm

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