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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: maxwellmolepe@netscape.net
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 05:55:17 +0200
Subject: AFTER DUE CONSIDERATIONS
FROM: DR MAXWELL MOLEPE.
DEPARTMENT OF MINING AND QUARRY.
EMAIL:maxwellmolepe@netscape.net
DATE: 01-Mar-2005.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT.
The South African Economy has witnessed a steady growth
since the end of Apartheid. Within the Department of
Mining, Quarry and Mineral Resources where I worked as
director of Auditing and Project Implementation, Mining and
Quarrying alone contributes 12.3% GD(R25.9Billion), Gold
made up R19.9Billion of the yearly export while Base metals
and other mineral products contribute R6.7Billion and
R5.0Billion respectively. This figure excludes Diamond,
which is quoted separately.
The Government has continuously strived to improve and
maintain good relationship with foreign governments and
Non-Governmental financial agencies by ensuring payments
for all debts owed to foreign contractors. As a matter of
fact, the Government has sponsored several trade
delegations overseas to improve and attract foreign
investments to South Africa.
I write to solicit your partnership in a matter I believe
will be of mutual benefit to us. This would require your
trust and capability to work with me with your genuine
cooperation according to instructions. I and two other
colleagues involved in this transaction are still in active
government service with the Ministry of Mines & Mineral
Resources and we are in dire need of a foreign partner to
assist us in the receipt and investment of US$11,500,000.00
(Eleven Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars).
The key issue is the transfer of the said sum to an account
that will be provided by you for this purpose for
safekeeping and subsequent investment in a profitable
venture. We are ready to go into an agreement with you
regarding your percentage in this transaction.
It does not matter whether or not you own a company, we
shall guide you on what to do. The basis will be that a
major company won a contract and subcontracted it to you.
More often, big trading companies and firms of unrelated
fields win contracts and subcontract to more specialized
firms for execution.
We shall follow strictly all the legal procedures entailed
in our laws and international laws in transferring the
funds to you. The source of the funds is legitimate and
authoritative, our caucus extends from my Department to the
Ministry of Finance.
It may interest you to know that a few years ago, a similar
transaction was carried out with one Mr. Patrice Miller,
The President of Crane International Trading Corporation,
at No. 135, East 57th Street, 28th Floor, New York, 10022,
with Telephone No. (212) 308-7788 and Telex No.
6731680.After the agreement between the partners, in which
he was to take 15% of the money, which was duly transferred
into his account only to be disappointed on arrival in New
York as we were reliably informed that Mr. Patrice Miller
was no longer on that address, while his Telephone and
Telex
Numbers had been changed that is how lost US$21.43M to
Mr.Patrice Miller.
This time around we need a more reliable and trustworthy
person or a reputable company to do business with, hence
this letter to you. If you are interested and can prove
yourself to be trustworthy then we can this transaction
with you.
I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not
disappoint me. Should you be willing to assist positively
with a common goal, endeavour to contact me immediately
through my email address above.
I await in anticipation your fullest co-operation.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Maxwell Molepe.
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