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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • johnson2003taylor@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • taylor@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: johnson taylor <johnson2003taylor@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:54:22 +0200
Subject: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL/BUSINESS VENTURE




MR JOHNSON TAYLOR *
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*<st1:place><st1:City>JOHANESSBURG</st1:City>, *
*<st1:country-region>SOUTH AFRICA</st1:country-region></st1:place>.*
REPLY ME WITH THIS MAIL (johnson2003taylor@hotmail.com [mailto:johnson2003=
taylor@hotmail.com])=20
(PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL/BUSINESS VENTURE)=20

ATTENTION: CEO/MANAGING DIRECTOR*

*
GOOD DAY, You will be surprised to receive this letter since you don't kno=
w me personally, but do treat this request as a call from somebody in dire=
need of your kind assistance. For the purpose of introduction, I am JOHNS=
ON TAYLOR , the eldest son of DR BEN TAYLOR , who was murdered with other =
whites in the land dispute violence in Zimbabwe. In my keen interest to in=
vest in your country, I got your contact through the South African Informa=
tion Exchange (S.A.I.E) here in Johannesburg, South Africa, and decided to=
write for an assistance. My Late Father was among the few black Zimbabwea=
n rich farmers murdered in cold blood by the KILLER SQUARD of the ruling g=
overnment of President Robert Mugabe for his alleged support and sympathy =
for the Zimbabwean Opposition Party controlled by whites and this crises a=
nd cold-blood-murder reports were communicated to the whole world through =
BBC, CNN and even United Nations General Assembly meetings for heads of go=
vernments member nations. Before his death, he had taken me to Johannesbur=
g where he deposited the sum of US$18.Million (Eighteen Million United Sta=
tes Dollars) with a Security and Finance Company for safe keeping as if he=
foresaw the looming danger that could erupt from the farm struggle in Zim=
babwe. This money was deposited in a box as a consignment labeled FAMILY T=
REASURE, with the Security and Finance Company. This was informed as not t=
o allow the company management have the knowledge of the real content of t=
he box for obvious safety reasons. This money was earmarked for the purcha=
se of machinery and Agro-Chemical for the farms and the establishment of n=
ew farms-settlements in Lesotho and Swaziland. This land problem arose whe=
n President Robert Mugabe introduced a New Land Acts which wholly affected=
the rich white farmers and some objective Blacks. This resulted to forcef=
ul ejection of whites from their lands, rampant killings, arson and mob ac=
tions by war veteran and some political thugs. Precisely, more than one hu=
ndred and seven (107) people have been killed and many others maimed for l=
ife in the past and up till July 2002, BBC and CNN have reported of more k=
illings in the farm-land violence. Heads of governments from the Western w=
orld, especially Britain and United States of America have voiced their co=
ndemnation over Mugabe's obnoxious land acts. Subsequently the Southern Af=
rican Development Community (S.A.D.I.C.) has continuously supported Mugabe=
's Land Reform Acts. It is against this background that I and my family wh=
o are currently staying in South Africa have desired to transfer this mone=
y out of South Africa into a trust foreign account As the eldest son of my=
father, I am saddled with the responsibility of seeking a genuine foreign=
account where this money could be transferred to, without the knowledge o=
f the Zimbabwean Government who have tactically frozen my family's wealth.=
But how can we fly without this fund. Presently, we are residing temporar=
ily in Johannesburg pending the out come of an appeal filed on our behalf =
by our attorney for the Department of Home Affairs to grant us asylum stat=
us. At the moment we are in dilemma to the fiscal laws inhabiting South Af=
rican Refugees on monetary policy. We request that this proposal should be=
granted so that we can be able to transfer this money to your nominated a=
ccount outside South Africa for investment purposes. As a business man who=
I wish to entrust my future and that of my family in his hands, I must le=
t you know that this transaction on is 100% risk free as far as you keep i=
t secret, the modalities to this transfer is ready with the help of our fa=
mily lawyer, a member of a Bank Board, a South African who by his help we =
finished all the arrangements the way this money should be transferred eas=
ily. But the problem we are facing is how to get an honesty and responsibl=
e person that can keep this money safe and stand as beneficiary. If you ca=
n sincerely assist us with the whole of your heart to transfer this fund i=
nto your nominated bank account, For your efforts we are prepared to give =
to you 25% of the total funds or you can go into partnership with us for t=
he proper profitable investment of the money in your country.=20
Whichever the option you want, feel free to notify me. I have also mapped =
out 10% of this money for all kinds of expenses we might incur in the proc=
ess of this transaction while 65% is for family investment. please send a =
return mail as quickly as possible and give me your confidential phone and=
fax numbers for more information. Please respond to enable my family know=
our decision.Yours sincerely, Johnson Taylor (FOR THE FAMILY) *


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