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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: "rex anderson" <rex_and11@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:03:17 +0000
Subject: Business Assistance
From: Mr. Rex Anderson
ABSA BANK SOUTH AFRICA
MOKOYA TOWERS SUITE 068
BRAAMFOINTEEN ,JOHANNESBURG 2000
PHONE: 27 73 939 8181
EMAIL: rex_anderson@email.com
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
ATTN: DIRECTOR/CEO
I am REX ANDERSON (FCAA), the chief accountant of ABSA Bank SOUTH AFRICA
(ABSA). There is an account open in this bank in 1999 and since 2001 nobody
has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in
the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it
would be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr. Smith B.
Andreas, a foreigner, and a miner at Kruger Gold Company, a Geologist by
profession and he died since the year 2000. No other person knows this
account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and
my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know
anything about this account and the money involved is One hundred and Thirty
Six Million United States Dollars (US$ 136 Million). I want us to first
transfer US$ 16 Million from this money into your safe overseas Bank account
before the rest follows. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because
this money cannot be approved to a local Bank here, but can only be approved
to any foreign account because the money is in United States Dollars and the
former owner Mr. Smith B. Andreas is a foreigner too. I know that this
message will come to you as surprise as we don’t know ourselves before. We
will sign an agreement, but be sure that it is real and a genuine business.
I only got your contact information from my secretary who operates computer;
with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business,
considering my position as a public servant. You are the only person that I
am contacted in this business; so please reply urgently so that I will
inform you the next step to take immediately. Send also your private
telephone and fax numbers including the full details of your account to be
used for the deposit. I want us to meet face-to-face and sign a binding
agreement to bind us together so that you can receive this money into your
account where the fund will be safe. And I will fly to your country for
withdrawal and sharing and other investment.
Meanwhile, I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner
with foreign account as foreign beneficiary. I need your full co-operation
to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this
payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which
I will give to you as soon as you indicate your sincerity to co-operate with
me, and capability to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust
according to my instruction and advice for our mutual benefit because this
opportunity may never come again in my life. I need a truthful and God
fearing person in this business because I don’t want to make a mistake so I
need your strong assurance and trust. With my position in the office I don’t
want anything that will jeopardize my job so I advice that we should make
secrecy and confidentiality our primary working condition. I will also use
my position and influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of
this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms from the
ministries and foreign exchange department.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be giving 25% of the total
amount, 70% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred in the process of the transfer. I look forward to your
earliest reply.
Yours sincerely,
REX ANDERSON
NB:FOR CONFIDENTIALITY REPLY ON THE ABOVE EMAIL ADDRESS
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