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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: "JOHN KING WOLFGANG" <wolfgang95_3@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:24:07 +0200
Subject: APPROVED LETTER FOR A MUTUAL TRANSFER/ TRANSACTION/INVESTMENT
444 COINS STREET
SOUTH AFRICA
A1 TRANSFER OF ($17,000.000.00 USD}
SEVENTEEN MILLION DOLLARS
ATTN;DEAR CHAIRMAN/MANAGING DIRECTOR
We want to transfer to overseas account $17,000.000.00 USD) SEVENTEEN
million United States
Dollars) from a Prime Bank here in South Africa, I want to ask you, If you
are not capable 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 work with the Auditing Department of one of the prime banks here in South
Africa, during the course of our auditing,I discovered a floating fund in an
account opened in the bank in 1996 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/WILL] 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 PEDRO F. HASLER a foreigner, a great industrialist
and he died since 1998.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 until his death he was the manager GOLD ARK [pty].
SA.
We will start the first transfer with three million [$3,000.000] upon
successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest amount to your account.
The total amount involve is seventeen million United States Dollars only
[$17,000.000.00]. I want to first transfer $3,000.000.00 [three 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,
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 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 when we meet
face to face after the first transfer of $3 Million before transferring the
second part of $14 Million. 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 immediately after the first transfer
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.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 55% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses both parties
might have incurred during the process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply through my email address.
Thanks and God bless
Yours truly,
DR MR JOHN KING WOLFGANG
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