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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: Dorothy Kilambe <dor.kilambe41@msn.com>
Reply-To: <den.kilambe@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:58:35 +0000
Subject: From: DR. MRS. DOROTHY KILAMBE
EMINENTLY CONFIDENTIAL
From: DR. MRS. DOROTHY KILAMBE
Dearest,
SOLICITING FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE FROM A WIDOW
It gives me a great pleasure to contact you, and I do hope this letter will not come to you as a surprise. I am Dr. Mrs. Dorothy Kilambe wife of a farmer in Zimbabwe who was recently murdered in the land dispute in my country. I got your contact through network online hence decided to write you. Before the death of my husband, he had taken me and my son to Johannesburg to deposit the sum of US$18.5 million (Eighteen million, Five Hundred thousand United States dollars), in one of the private security company, as he foresaw the looming danger in Zimbabwe. This money was deposited in a box as gem stones to avoid much demurrage from the security company. This amount was meant for the purchase of new machines and chemicals for the Farms and establishment of new farms in Swaziland.
This land problem came when Zimbabwean President Mr. Robert Mugabe introduced a new Land Act Reform wholly affecting the rich white farmers and some few black farmers, and this resulted to the killing and mob action by Zimbabwean war veterans and some lunatics in the society. In fact a lot of people were killed because of this Land reform Act for which my husband was one of the victims. It is against this background that, I and my family fled Zimbabwe for fear of our lives and are currently staying in South Africa, where we are seeking political asylum and moreso have decided to transfer my husband's money to a more reliable foreign account.
For partnership purpose, and for the sake of humanity, we decided to contact you in confidence to inform you that we have in our possession all substantiality of the deposit made by my late husband which were funds that were in one's heart moved out of Zimbabwe to South Africa. This fund involves a total cash sum of US$18.5M, which were hidden and packaged in one big Metal Box, presently kept with a Diplomatic Security Deposit Company in South Africa, as a family treasures. In regards to this, you are to forward your private telephone and fax number to enable my son communicate with you, so as to arrange the mode of the transfer from South Africa to your country.
For security reasons all communications regarding to this business should be strictly by mail and telephone. Secondly, We have agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum for your immense assistance to us, while you will hold 75% on trust for us as we would like to invest our share in your country in a good business and also invest in charity.
Please you are required to treat this letter as highly confidential as no other person knows about this money except me, my son (Dennis Kilambe), your very self and our lawyer in South Africa. Looking forward to hearing from you via my son's numbers in Johannesburg, Tel: 27-73-679 5552, Email: den.kilambe@gmail.com .May God bless you as you help a widow in need of help.
Yours sincerely,
DR. MRS. DOROTHY KILAMBE
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