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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: "Dr. Jose Wayas" <josewayas123@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: joseway027@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:26:01 +0000
Subject: Please Urgent Attention
Attention: President/Director,
I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the Gold and
Natural resources ministry here in South Africa, for security reasons, I may
not wish to disclose the most important thing for now until I hear from
you.
After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you
this business proposal, we want you to assist us receive the sum of Twenty
eight million, six hundred thousand united state bills (US$34.6Million) into
your account. This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded
by us under the budget allocation to my ministry and the bill was
approved for payment by the concerned ministries. The contract was executed,
commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual cost of the
contract. Now, we are left with the balance of (US$34.6Million) as the over invoiced amount, which we have deliberately over estimated for our own use. Please
note that the law forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign
accounts hence this contact, we have agreed to share the money in the
following percentages: 30 for you, 60 for us 10 for tax as may be required
by your government, because we dont need anything will delay this money
when it arrive in your bank account.
Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk
hence the business was carefully planned before it was successfully
executed and we the officials involved in the deal have put many years in
service to our ministry. We have been exercising patience for this
privilege for so long not until the presidential announcement last week, that
all foreign contractors owed be paid forthwith, this will enable the presidency
reconcile our debt ratio with the outside world and to most of us, this is
a lifetime blessing we cannot afford to miss. Upon indication of your
interest to fully co-operate with us, a payment application/information
form will be sent to you via email for completion.
Note that the following information: a) Your full name and address, b)
Company Name and Address c) your private phone number will enable us
seek/secure approval of the fund from the concerned government
quarters/ministries within 3-4 banking days.
As soon as we confirm receipt of this money in your nominated bank
account,my partner and I will come over to your country to arrange for our
own share and possibly invest part of this money in your country.
Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout this transaction. I
shall furnish you with some details about myself. Your prompt reply will
be highly appreciated.
Best regards.
Dr. Jose Wayas
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