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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: "dembo family" <dembofamily14@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:12:33 +0000
Subject: RE: LETTER
MR.JAMES AND MRS CECELIA DEMBO.
EMAIL: dembofamily@mailbox.co.za
NO: 14 STONE QUARRY CLOSE
SANTON, JOHANNESBURG.
SOUTH AFRICA.
SUBJECT: RELOCATION/PARTNERSHIP
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ATTENTION:
I strongly believe that this message would come to you as .a surprise. In
fact, it is in respect of the strict confidence given to me that you are
honest and versatile in business that motivated my interest to seek your
cooperation in this transaction. My father is late General Antonio Dembo the
former Vice president of UNITA rebels in Angola. He was the Chairman of
Angolan Petroleum Monitoring Committee (APMC) 1992 to 2002. Sadly, he died
after an injury sustained during the ambush on The UNITA rebel on 27th
February 2002 where the President of UNITA, Dr. Jonas Savimbi was killed. As
you might have known, Petroleum and gold is the major revenue source in
Angola (Southern Africa). My father made a lot of money through the job but
could not invest the money immediately to avoid probe by the military
government. He was able to save the sum of $35m (Thirty five Million United
States Dollars). He deposited this sum with a security firm in Johannesburg
in South Africa.
The documents used in these depositions, together with the key of the safe,
are with my mother. In my father’s will, he instructed that this money must
be invested overseas with the help of a foreigner who is reliable and
trustworthy. So as to avoid probe by the federal government of Angola, since
he was a general in the warm torn Angola, and could not have amassed such
wealth legally.
With his death, I came to South Africa to live with my mother as a refugee
but the violence and high incidence of robbery and murder here is alarming.
Hence, I am contacting you to assist my mother and me in relocating to your
Country. Consequently, I now seek your cooperation to come to South Africa
so that we can open a company account with your Company name here in
Johannesburg, and then the Security Company can deposit the money into the
Company account for transfer to any account which you may provide. Again,
whereby you can not come to South Africa we can improvise another means to
get the funds into your account.
My mother and I have agreed to give 20% of the total sum to you while 65%
will be for us then, the remaining 5% will be used to offset the bills
incurred in the Course of the transfer while 10% will be for charity. The
most important thing is to assist us to relocate to your country to live.
However you are advised to reply me immediately and when I receive all your
favorable reply you will be given all necessary details and documents. You
can rich us through alternative phone and email: 27-83-752-9233:
dembofamily@mailbox.co.za
Thanks for your co-operation.
MR.JAMES AND MRS CECELIA DEMBO.
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