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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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From: "isaac khumalo" <khumaloisaac01@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: khumalo_isaac@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:20:53 +0000
Subject: Greeetings
FROM: Mr khumalo Isaac
Manager FNB Bank Ltd,
112 plane street johannesburg,
South Africa.
Email: khumalo_isaac@yahoo.com
URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL.
Dear, I am Mr. Khumalo Isaac, Manager of Bills/Exchange at the foreign
remittance department of FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED (FNB).
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of$20,000,000.00 (Twenty
Million, United State Dollars ) in an account that belonged to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family, on November 2002,
in a ghastly plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have
been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and claim his money because we
can not release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, Unfortunately,
nobody has come forward to claim this money.
It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have decided
to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence my contacting
you. We want you to present yourself as the next of kin or relation of the
deceased, so that the funds can be remitted into your account.
Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the government account as
unclaimed bills. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that any
account abandoned or is dormant for a period of some years, is deemed closed
and all money contained therein forfeited to the government treasury
account.
Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into the
government account as an unclaimed fund on or before December 2006. The
reason for requesting you to present yourself as next of kin, is occasioned
by the fact that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner.
The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your
account, shall be 70% to my colleagues and I, for the role you will be
expected to play in this deal, we have agreed to give you 25% of the total
sum and 5% for the expenses we are going to encounter by the two parties at
the course of this transaction.
Therefore, you are expected to reply this letter indicating your readiness
and interest to participate in this business. After receiving your reply,
you will be communicated to with the exact steps to take.
I expect your urgent response to my confidential e-mail address at
khumalo_isaac@yahoo.com to enable us to conclude this transaction urgently
without any hitch.
Please treat this business proposal as strictly confidential for security
reasons.
Best Regards,
MR. MR KHUMALO ISAAC
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