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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: "mary_ zuma2004" <mary_zuma2004@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:55:22 +0200
Subject: an urgent fund transfer and investment
FROM:MARY ZUMA
TEL:+27-838620232
JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA
ATTN:DIRECTOR/CEO,
URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANT
With due respect, trust, truth and humility, I write you this proposal,
which I believe would be of great interest to you, I found your contact
while I was doing a private research through chamber of commerce for a
reliable and capable foreign partner that will assist me and my family. I am
Mrs MARY ZUMA, the wife of late Dennis ZUMA of Zimbabwe.
During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from support of our
President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country,
all the white farmers were ordered to surrender their farms to his party
members and his followers. My husband who was one of the best farmers in our
country and treasure of the farmers cooperation did not support his idea and
so the party members invaded my husband’s farm and burnt everything in the
farm, killed my husband,my first son and made away with a lot of items in
my husband’s farm.
After the death of my husband during the month of February 10th 2002
presidential election in zimbabwe, I and my family decided to move out of
Zimbabwe because of our lives were in danger . The amount my husband had
deposited in a private security company here in south africa before he was
killed was US$15M (Fifteen Million United States Dollars) This money was
mearnt for the purchase of agricultural equipments.Owing to the turmoil
being experienced by my family we decided to move to the Republic of South
Africa where my husband had already given me instructions and details of
the fund he had deposited.This money was deposited as valuable items.
Again when we arrived South Africa we had became assylum
seekers(refugees),now we came to find out that our life has suddenly been
made difficult as the South African Moneytary policy does not allow us as
refugees to operate bank accounts or make financail investment.I cannot but
contact you to be my foreign partner to help me and my family in the
transfer of this fund out of South Africa as it is all we have and hope on
now.
So if you consider this proposal I have agreed to give you 20% of the total
sum for helping me to transfer this money out to your country and 5% will be
mapped out for expenses both of us incur during this transaction while 75%
will be for me and my family to invest in your country.
Note that this transaction is 100% risk-free and absolutely confidential for
security reasons.
Best regards,
MARY ZUMA.
(For the family)
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