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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: "Mr. MacDonald" <pinoputa18@gmail.com>
Reply-To: pindrma@sify.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 18:13:14 -0700
Subject: I AM WAITING FOR YOUR MAIL URGENTLY
8/10 31 1st Street,
Bezuidenhout Valley,
Johannesburg South Africa.
My Sat Line: +8821644448674
TRANSFER OF $155,770,000.00 {One Hundred And Fifty Five Million Seven
Hundred And Seventy Thousand United State Dollars}
Good Day:
I sincerely ask for forgiveness for I know this may seem like a complete
intrusion to your privacy but right about now this is my option of
communication. This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation
to ignore it as unserious could come into your mind; but please consider it
a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility.
I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a
relationship. I am MacDonald Ishiego the personal account officer to the
great late diseased who has an account in one of the top banks here in South
Africa. The account was opened in 2001 and he died on 2004 without a written
or oral WILL and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again hence
the funds is floating and if I do not remit this funds out urgently it will
be forfeited for nothing and Govt. of South Africa will confiscate the funds
for their personal use which I personally don't want such incident to happen
being that this is a great opportunity for me.
My contact is for you to please assist me to transfer the funds
{$155,770,000.00} One Hundred and Fifty Five Million Seven Hundred and
Seventy Thousand United State Dollars from a Cooperate Bank here in South
Africa to an oversea account. First, I must solicit your strictest
confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being
utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and
reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude. I solicit
your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account
for onward investment.
You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank
account 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 of
this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will
never let me down either now or in future because this business is my life.
The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about
this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary
and until his death he was the manager of the company. My investigation
through the National immigration department & Ministries here proved to me
as well that he was single as at the time of his entry into the Republic of
South Africa.
As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for
investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the
management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has the correct
information to this account which I will give to you immediately, if you are
interested to do this business with me. There is no risk in this business.
With my position and my personal contact with the manager of the bank, the
funds can be transferred to any account you can provide with assurance that
this funds will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for
proper sharing.
We will start the first transfer with Fifty million {$50,000.000}. Upon
successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of {$105,770,000.00} to
your account. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this fund
cannot be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to any
foreigner who has the correct information of the account, which I will
provide for you. So you should provide me with your correct account details
where you will like the fund to be transferred to, or you can set up a new
account for the transfer even an empty account can serve as well.
At the conclusion of the transfer your share will be 40% of the total
transfer sum, 60% for my partners and me. As soon as I hear from you and
upon your strong assurance that you will not let me down once the funds goes
into your account I will then start the process of the transfer of the fund
to your account without further delay. If you are interested, please forward
the following information as below:
{1} Your Name/company's name and full address,
{2} Bank Name:............ ..........
{3} Bank Address.....................
{4} Account No:......................
{5} Swift Code:..........{if any}
{6} Account Holder's Name:....................
{7} Your telephone Nos.both Home, Office & Cell/Mobile
and fax Numbers:..................
{8} Your Occupation:..............
{9} Your Valid ID:................
Upon the receipt of the above details, payment will be activated by the
feeding of your data into payment system, followed by a signal that will be
sent to the paying bank to remit the funds into your nominated bank account
within 5 official working days of receipt of the above information.
I look forward to hear from you as soon as URGENCY.
Remain bless
Best Regards,
Mr. MacDonald Ishiego.
My Sat Line: +8821644448674
EMAIL ADDRESS:< pindrma@sify.com >
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