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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?serrah=20mbulu?= <serrah_mbulu@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:18:42 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Family Assistance
FROM:MRS Serrah Mbulu
115 SMIT STREET,SANDTON
SOUTH AFRICA.
Dear ,
I do foresee a surprise this letter will bring to you as come from a stranger. I am MRS.Serrah Mbulu,the wife of late DR.Alexandra Mbulu, a
South African Citizen. I gathered your information
from the South African information exchange here in South Africa and decided to seek for your assistance.
My late Husband DR. Alexandra Mbulu deals with Gold
and Diamond and was the General Manager of a Gold Mining Industry in Kimberly –South Africa before he died on 14th January 2001 after a brief illness.
Knowing fully well that South Africa being a country rich with Gold and Diamond, my late husband who was famous and very rich before he past away entrusted me as his beloved wife a huge amount of money he deposited with one of the commercial banks here in South Africa.
He also handed me over the relevant documents
(Depository statment) of the money.
A total amount of US$30.5. Million (Thirty Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) only was deposited into the commercial bank by
my late husband as family valuables to avoid intruders into the said account.
This amount of money was made by my late husband
through the sale of Gold he smuggled out of the Industry in the year 2000. He was arrested and
probed for irregularities and allegedly looting the
government’s treasury but was later released and retrenched prematurely according to South African
regulation.
It was on that note that I and my children who is
presently waiting for your reply decided to contact you to help us transfer this money with your name
to your country or your nominated destination around
the world for eventual Investment. We cannot invest this money here because of the aforementioned
encouter he had with then government.So it based on
this fact, that have concluded with my children that you shall be entitled with 25% of the total sum for your assistance.
Kindly let us know your intention by contact my son MR David C. Mbulu.to discuss More on the modalities as he has been handed over this transaction to Conclude with you. You can contact him on
tel:27-83-685-3694.You are to phone him as to indicate your proper Interest towards this
transaction,as we are unable to tolerat any setback in the course of this endevour.
Meanwhile, you are free to ask any question you wish
but you must be assured that this transaction is risk-free, strictly confidential and must be kept
in confidence till you are assured of our honesty and genuiety of this transaction. We shall keep in touch with you on the rocedures.
Waiting For Your reply.
Thanks in anticipation
MRS.Serrah Mbulu.
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