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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_dominicbrown@tatanova.com"<mr_dominicbrown@tatanova.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:33:49 +0530
Subject: From Mr Dominic Brown.
3/5 Rider Hider Haggard
Close Jo Borto
South Africa.
E-mail:mr_brown02@mail.az
From Mr Dominic Brown.
Please Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a
surprise or if it might offend you without your prior consent and
writing through this channel. I am Mr.Dominic Brown.the Auditor General
of one of the prime banks here here in south africa, during the course of
our auditing,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank
in 1995 and since 1998 nobody has operated on this account again, after
going through some old files in the 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. Allan P.Seaman, a foreigner, and an
industrialist, and he died,since 1996.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 Allan P. Seaman until his death was the
manager Diamond Safari [pty]. S.A The amount involved is (USD 36 M) Thirty six
million United States Dollars only.
But I want to first transfer $16,000.000 [ Sixteen million United
States Dollar] first from this money into a safe foreigner's account
abroad before the rest and upon successful transaction without any
disappoint from your side, we shall then re-apply for the payment of the remaining
rest amount to the account.I am only contacting you as a foreigner in this
transaction because this money can not be approved to a local person here,without
valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any
foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c
because the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr.Allan
P.Seaman is aforeigner too,and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c and
I do not know any foreigner.I got your contact through the research I
made in the south african chambers of commerce internet bureau{S.A.C.C.I.B}I
am revealing all this to you with believe in God that you will never let
me down in this business.
I want us to meet face to face to build more confidence and to
sign a bindingagreement that will bind us together before transferring
this money to any account of your choice where this fund will be safe before
I'II fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and if possible
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 about this man and his account, which I will make avialable to you.I
need your strong assurance that you will never,never let me down.With my
influence and the position of some bank official we can transfer this money to
any reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money
will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing.And
to build more confidence I'II suggest if you can arrange an immediate
visit to discuss with me face to face after which we shall proceed with the
transfer in yourpresenc. I will use my position and influence toobtain 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 30%
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, while
the remaining 5% will used for charity, as a mark of God's gratitude for
the blessing.
I look forward to your call for more discussion,
Regards,
Mr.Dominic Brown
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