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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: "Michael Johnson" <michael00johnson14@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: mr.michaeljohnson@mighty.co.za
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:00:30 +0300
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Date: 23th Jun, 2008
Dear friend,
A certain Mr. Anderson Garcia, was a first generation immigrant to South
Africa during the apartheid regimes. Anderson became very successful here in
South Africa, as a big time contractor to the successive apartheid regimes
in South Africa and he has banked with a certain commercial bank here in
South Africa, for decades. Today I am the Head of the Treasury Department of
this same bank, where Anderson has been banking. I have worked with this
same bank, which is a commercial bank located here in Johannesburg South
Africa, for the last 15years and have been Anderson's account manager in
this bank for the last 10 years. My name is Mr. Michael Johnson, and I am a
citizen of South Africa.
Painfully and unfortunately too, Mr. Anderson, his wife Laura and only son
Michael, all died in Thailand, where they were on holiday, on 26th December
2004, as victims of the unfortunate Indian ocean Tsunami of that year.
Before his death, Anderson had a substantial amount of money left in his
account with our bank and unfortunately he died without a will, or survivor.
As a result of these two facts, his account has remained inactive ever
since and nobody has come forward to ask for this money, whether as either
his next of kin, or the administrator of his estate, or anything. As things
stand now, if nobody asks for this money very soon, then my bank will
legally appropriate to itself the whole money in this account, as a fund,
whose owner has been untraceable.
Therefore, my purpose of writing you this letter, in your position and
capacity as a foreigner and a non-resident, and non-citizen of South Africa,
is to request for your cooperation and collaboration with me, for you and I
to demand for and indeed claim the money in this his bank account with my
bank to ourselves, instead of allowing the bank to do same. Our moral
justification for doing so is that if we fail to do so, the bank will
certainly claim the money, as it's own. However, the best thing would have
been to pay the money to any living relation of the deceased customer, to
whom it would rightly have belonged to, but there is absolutely no such
known existing relation, { haven searched for same in vain, since January
2005}; thus leaving the money now at the mercy of whoever is able to claim
it first, between you and I on one hand and the bank on the other hand, as
we are the only two parties that know about anything surrounding the said
fund.
Friend, your cooperation/collaboration with me in this venture is inevitable
to it's success, because this money can only be released to a claimant that
is
not a South African citizen and one that is domiciled outside South Africa.
No doubt, you fit the criteria perfectly well. My idea here is that our two
sides will share this amount with the accrued interests, in agreed ratios,
after it is paid to you as the supposed authentic next-of-kin to the
Anderson, because we need each other to make this happen. We may also choose
to reinvest the money too and own such investments jointly upon agreed
ratios too.
Please take notice and get the understanding that I never wrote, implied, or
insinuated that the late Anderson was your dead relation, or related to you
in any other way, or even known to you, as I have no such evidence, or any
reason to suggest that. I am simply, confidently telling you that the
combination of the fact that your are a foreigner domiciled outside the
Republic of South Africa and my strategic position in the subject bank, are
more than sufficient for me to cause the above money that he left in his
account since 2004, to be legitimately, genuinely and lawfully paid in your
favour, as if you were indeed related to him actually; the fact that you are
not, notwithstanding. I am also guaranteeing that this project will be done
according to internationally accepted standards of practice and morals only.
Essentially I need you to organize the reception and custody of the money in
any country outside South Africa, which may, or may not be your home
country, or country of your normal domicile. My own duty is to arrange and
cause our bank to effect, the hitch-free movement of the funds from the bank
here to such your chosen destination and doing so in the most legitimate,
lawful and ethically acceptable way. To do this effectively, I have also
gotten the cooperation of the Director in charge of the International
banking Dept of this our bank, whom I have co-opted in this project and who
is already working with me here on the project now. What is even more
interesting about this project is that you are not required to put up, or
pay even a dime of your own money in the project. Therefore, what else can
you ask for, or could one wish for, better than this?
There is currently $12,150,002.00, (Twelve million, one hundred and fifty
thousand, two US Dollars) in the said account, plus the compounded interests
that have accrued to it since January 2005, all of which we will move to
your instructed bank, or chosen destination outside Africa, by Swift
transfer, or cashier's cheques. This US$12,150,002.00 plus interests, is the
amount I am telling you that we have to move over to you and share, or
re-invest and own upon mutually agreed ratios. The above amount will be to
our mutual benefits and be ours legitimately too. Out of this amount, I am
proposing for your consideration, that you will be entitled to one third of
the $12,150,002.00, (Twelve million, one hundred and fifty thousand, two US
Dollars), which is US$4,050,000, Four million, fifty thousand Dollars,
{Plus1/3 of all interests that have accrued on this sum from January 2005 to
date}, as your commission/share, on the completion of the project. Again,
in order not to run foul of the Patriot Act, or any other such laws that may
be in force anywhere, we can as well move this fund in many installments of
smaller bits of say $2.0m, or less at a time, if you want. However,
appropriate documentations and clearance will accompany any sum being sent
to you, to show the legitimacy and legality of the payment.
Moreover everything about this transaction will be done in a most civilized
and non-criminal way, which must be according to internationally acceptable
standards of practice and morals. In addition there is no risk of failure,
or legal, or security problems, or prosecutions etc, for anybody in this
transaction both now and in the future. Therefore, need I say again that you
will indeed not regret your choice of doing this transaction with me at all?
I therefore very earnestly solicit your sincerest cooperation in this
project and I will be very glad to give you some specifics as you may demand
from me, as soon as you have confirmed your interest in this proposal.
Please give me your urgent reply in very strict confidence, .hk first and we
will proceed from there.
Yours very Sincerely.
MR. Michael Johnson
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