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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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Fraud email example:
From: South Africa Police Services Internet Fraud Rescue Team SAPS Crime Stop
<sapscrimestop@live.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:30:44 +0200
Subject: From: (SAPS) PLS DO CALL US URGENTLY !
Motto: Fighting For Money Laundering In South Africa Att: Mr.Surya Dharma, Who It May Concern
This South Africa Commission, Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (SAEFCC) We Fight Cyber Crime Fraud Scam Money Laundering In South Africa. Our Commission Has Been In Existence Since 2005.
Our Duties Is To Stop Internet Fraud Scam. As For Today We Have Put A lot Of People Fraudsters Behind Bars Alot Of Them Are In Jail We Go All Over Africa and Europe To Pick This Thieves.
We Have Over 897 Of Them In Our Jails Round Africa And We Are Still Looking For More, We Are Aware That A Lot Of Foreigners Out There Have Been Deceived Tricked And Lost A Lot Of Money. To This Fraudsters After Promising you about Winning Lottery (Fake) In Their Letters For You To Help Them Move Funds At The End Of The Day They Will Collect Thousands Of Dollars From You Making You A Poor Person.
All The African Crime Fighters Leaders Has Come Together To Inform The World What Is Going On Now And We Have Recoved Over $422 Million Dollars (Four Hundred And Twenty Two Million Dollars) From The People We Have Behind Bars. The Only Reason We Are Writing You This Letter, Is Because Your Name Was Given To Us By First National Bank of South Africa In Our Jail We Have One Criminal Named (Lottery Claim Agent), That their Collected money from you. We Got Information That You in Indonesia (Asia). Please Help Us With Solid Information To Arrest Him Over There in United Kingdom with his account details .
Our Action Now Is To Refund The Money Back To you In Asia , Please We Need More Information From You To Jail Them, Please Do Not Call Any Of Their Group Till We Ask You To Call Them For More Details.
If You Know Any Person Family Or Friend That Has Lost Money To Fraudsters Please Tell Him/Her To Write To This Commission With Proves And We Will Handle His/Her Case Then Pay Back After Verification.
We Are Aware These Fraudsters Has Broken Alot Of Home, Made Alot Of People To Lose Their Job, Sell Their Properties, Closed Their Business, Put Many On The Street, And Made Alot To Even Lose Their Life. Please You Are To Reach Us In Our Email Address Above For Further Clarifications On How You Are To Receive Your Lost Funds You Are To Forward Your Full Particulars And Recent Telephone And Fax Numbers.
South African Government Will Reward You Handsomely For Your Efforts Towards This Assistance with R1,200.000.00 (US$135,000.00) We All Know That You Are Good Citizen of your country.
Mrs.Ellen Dawn (Sergeant SAPS)
No Body is Above the LAW (Security Watch) !
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