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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: "tito mboweni" <mboweni_1@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:14:23 +0200
Subject: DR. TITO MBOWENI
OUR REF:…................. YOUR
REF………………………
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
ATTN: DIRECTOR/CEO
I am DR. TITO MBOWENI (FCAA), the chief accountant of African Development
Bank (ADB). There is an account open in this bank in 1990 and since 2004
nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old
files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out
urgently it would be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Dr.
Mohamed Galal, a foreigner, and a miner at Kruger Gold Company, a Geologist
by profession and he died on a plan crash since 1990. Pls;Confirm from the
web site as below;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm
No other person knows this account or anything concerning it, the account
has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that this
company does not know anything about this account and the money involved is
Thirty Six Million United States Dollars (US$ 36 Million). I want us to
first transfer US$ 6 Million from this money into your safe overseas account
before the rest. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money
cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any
foreign account because the money is in United States Dollars and the former
owner Dr. Mohamed Galal is a foreigner too. I know that this message will
come to you as surprise as we don’t know ourselves before. We will sign an
agreement, but be sure that it is real and a genuine business.
I only got your contact information from my secretary who operates computer;
with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business,
considering my position as a public servant. You are the only person that I
have contacted in this business; so please reply urgently so that I will
inform you the next step to take immediately. Send also your private
telephone and fax numbers including the full details of your account to be
used for the deposit. I want us to meet face-to-face and sign a binding
agreement to bind us together so that you can receive this money into your
account where the fund will be safe. And I will fly to your country for
withdrawal and sharing and other investment.
Meanwhile, I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner
with foreign account and foreign beneficiary. 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 as soon as you indicate your sincerity to co-operate with
me, and capability to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust
according to my instruction and advice for our mutual benefit because this
opportunity may never come again in my life. I need a truthful and God
fearing person in this business because I don’t want to make a mistake so I
need your strong assurance and trust. With my position in the office I don’t
want anything that will jeopardize my job so I advice that we should make
secrecy and confidentiality our primary working condition, bearing in mind
that I am a public servant. I will also use my position and influence to
effect legal approvals and onward transfer of this money to your account
with appropriate clearance forms of the ministries and foreign exchange
department.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be giving 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred the process of the transfer. I look forward to your earliest
reply.
Yours sincerely,
TITO MBOWENI (DR)
CONFIDENTIAL
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