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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. Mbulu tutu" <kh_mb500@excite.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mb_t500@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:26:42 -0700
Subject: FROM TUTU
3/5 RIDER HAGGARD
CLOSE 1, JO, BORG
SOUTH AFRICA.
RE: TRANSFER OF ($7,568.000.00 USD
SEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT THOUSAND
DOLLARS)
Dear sir,
We want to transfer to overseas ($7,568.000.00 USD)
Seven Million Five Hundred and Sixty Eight Thousand
United States Dollars) from co-operative bank of South
Africa, I want to ask you to quietly look for a
reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit
to provide either an existing bank account or to set
up a new Bank a/c 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 for
this important business trusting in you and believing
in God that you will never let me down either now or
in future.
I am MR MBULU TUTU the Auditor General of co-operative
bank of South Africa, during the course of our
auditing
I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in
the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated
on this account again, after going through some old
files and records I discovered that the owner of the
account died without a [heir] hence the money is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently
it will be forfeited for nothing. the owner of this
account is Mr. HERMANN RADNITZ, a foreigner, and an
industrialist, and he died, since 1993. and no other
person knows about this account or any thing
concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary
and my investigation proved to me as well that MR
HERMANN RADNITZ until his death was the manager of
Diamond Safari [pty]. SA.
We will start the first transfer with four(4) million
[$4,000.000] upon successful transaction without any
disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for
the payment of the remaining rest amount to your
account, The amount involved is (USD7.568M)
Seven Million Five Hundred and Sixty Eight Thousand
United States Dollars, only I want to first transfer
$4,000,000 {four million United States Dollar from
this money into a safe foreigners account abroad
before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner, I am
only contacting you as a foreigner because this money
can not be approved to a local person here, but can
only be approved to any foreigner with valid
international passport or drivers license and foreign
a/c because the money is in u.s dollars and the former
owner of the a/c Mr. HERMANN RADNITZ is a foreigner
too, [and the money can only be approved into a
foreign a/c.
However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind
us together in this transaction. I am revealing this
to you with believe in God that you will never let me
down in this business, you are the first and the only
person that I am contacting for this business, so
please reply urgently so that I will inform you the
next step to take urgently. Send also your private
telephone and fax number including the full details of
the account to be used for the deposit.
I want us to meet face to face to build confidence
and to sign a binding agreement that will bind us
together before transferring the money to any account
of your choice where the fund will be safe. Before we
fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and
investments.
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, upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are
capable and will meet up with instruction of a key
bank official who is deeply involved with me in this
business. I need your strong assurance that you will
never, never let me down.
With my influence and the position of the bank
official we can transfer this money to any foreigner's
reliable account which you can provide with assurance
that this money will be intact pending our physical
arrival in your country for sharing. The bank official
will destroy all documents of transaction immediately
we receive this money leaving no trace to any place
and to build confidence you can come immediately to
discuss with me face to face after which I will make
this remittance in your presence and three of us will
fly to your country at least two days ahead of the
money going into the account.
I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately
I hear from you that you are ready to act and receive
this fund in your account. I will use my position
and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward
transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries
and foreign exchange departments.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given
35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while
5% will be for expenses both parties might have
incurred during the process of transferring. I will
send you all my phone and fax numbers as soon as you
indicate interest in this businesses
I look forward to your earliest reply .
yours truly,
Tutu.
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