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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: PRIVAE JMK <p_riva_42@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <markmwo100@yahoo.ca>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 06:56:01 +0200
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
( URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL ) {RE:TRANSFER OF ($ 152,000.000.00USD} {ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO MILLION DOLLARS ) Dear Sir or Madam, We want to transfer to overseas ($ 152,000.000.00 USD) One hundred and Fifty two million United States Dollars) from a Bank in Africa, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future. I am Mr.John Mark, the Auditor General of a bank in South Africa, during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1998 and since 1998 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account perished with his whole families on 25TH JULY,2000 CONCORDE PLANE CRASH [ Flight AF459]with the whole passengers aboard the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. the owner of this account is Mr. ANDREAS SCHRANNER , a foreigner, and a sailor, and he died, since 2000. and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that Mr. ANDREAS SCHRANNER until his death was the manager of SCHRANNER Coy.(pty).SA. We will start the first transfer with fifty two million [$52,000.000] upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest amount to your account. The amount involved is (USD 152M) One hundred and Fifty two million United States Dollars, only I want to first transfer $52,000.000 [fifty two million United States Dollar from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner, Iam only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in us Dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr. ANDREAS SCHRANNER is a foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c. However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together I got your contact address from the Girl who operates computer, I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. I want us to meet face to face to build confidence and to sign a binding agreement that will bind us together before transferring the money to any account of your choice where the fund will be safe. Before we fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and investments. I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I need your strong assurance that you will never, never let me down. With my influence and the position of the bank official we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. The bank official will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place and to build confidence you can come immediately to discuss with me face to face after which I will make this remittance in your presence and three of us will fly to your country at least two days ahead of the money going into the account. I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to act and receive this fund in your account. I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring. I look forward to your earliest reply through my email address (markmwo100@yahoo.ca or private2021d@myway.com) Respectfully yours Mr.John Mark,
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