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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: director_interremitt_dept@wemabank.net
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:20:04 +0100
Subject: Waiting to hear from you now
FROM: MR. PHILIP MBEKI
2B.ROSTENVILL G.R.A.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.
EMAIL director_interremitt_dept@wemabank.net
Hello,
CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT
I am MR PHILIP MBEKI; the Director of WEMA BANK SOUTH AFRICA COTTAGE .I got your contact address from your country’s Trade Journal. Your impressive and managerial records made me to solicit for your partnership in these regards. You are the only person that I have contacted in this business with the believe that you will not let me down.
After going through some old files in the records department, I discovered that there is an account opened in this bank in 1992 and since 1992; no body has operated on this account. The owner of this account is late MR.JEROME .N. CALKINS, a citizen of your country and a miner at the Anglo Gold Platinum Mining Company in Mafikeng, as a geologist by profession and he died since 2002.Up till now, no other person knows about 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 amount involved is US$20,500.000 (TWENT MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS),and I want to first transfer US$10 Million(TEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS)from the money into a safe foreign account abroad before the rest, but I have not gotten a trusted foreigner.
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can be approved to any foreign account because the money is in US DOLLARS and the former owner of the account MR.SANAG was a foreigner and because of the need to involve a foreign account, I need your full co-operation to make this work smoothly because the management is ready to approve this payment to whoever that has correct information to this account. Of which I will give to you later, if you are able to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my instruction and advice for our mutual benefits because this opportunity will never come again in my life.
I need your strong assurance, reliability With my position now in the office, I can transfer this money to any reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. I will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money, leaving no trace of any. You can also come to discuss with me face-to-face then the remittance will be made in the presence of both of us. Then we will fly to your country at least two days ahead before the money gets into your account .I have the tendency to invest my own share of the money in your country in expectation to sound management and good capital returns according to your advice. Be assured that you stand no risk of any kind as the fund belongs to us now.
Therefore, after the eventual stage of the transfer of this fund, I am offering you 35% of the total fund, 60% will be for me while 5% will be set aside for expenses that might incur during the course of this transaction or you can call me to discuss on the percentage if this did not go well with you. I strongly believe that associating with you to embark on this fund, other business ventures will derive a huge success thereafter.
I will use my position to influence to effect approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms from the ministries and foreign exchange department. I am counting on your sense of confidentiality, as it is my desire to keep this to yourself.
Looking forward to your urgent response. For security reason please reply with this mail as above director_interremitt_dept@wemabank.net
Yours Faithfully,
MR. PHILIP MBEKI
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