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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 ISHIEGO" <mkdi0013@gmail.com>
Reply-To: pinmac@sify.com
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:13:26 -0700
Subject: LET ME HEAR FROM YOU 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: < pinmac@sify.com >
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