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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: "WILLIAM SAVIMBI" <williamsavimbi2004@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: savimbiwilliam@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:40:49 -0800
Subject: THIS IS WILLIAM: I NEED A GOOD BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP. REPLY TO ME SOON.
From: William Savimbi
Address: 15 Oxford Street,Rosebank.JHB.
Tel : +27-72-44-33-083
E-mail:
Dear Sir/Madam,
This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not met each other before. The message could be strange but real if you pay more attention to it. I could have notified you about it at least for the sake of your integrity. Please accept my sincere apologies.
In bringing this message of good will to you, I have to say that I have no intentions of causing you any pain. I am Mr. William savimbi, the son of the late rebel leader Mr. Jonahs Savimbi of
Angola who was killed on the 22nd of February 2004. I managed to get your contact details through The World Business Journal", a journal of the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce in South Africa in the time I was desperately looking for a trustworthy person to assist my
family in this confidential business.
My late father, Mr Jonahs Savimbi was able to deposit a large sum of money in one of the security companies here in South Africa. My father is presently dead and the movement of his family members (including me) was restricted in my country Angola. We were forbidden to either travel abroad or out of our localities, but as the first and only son, I was able to find my way out of the country to South Africa where this money is been deposited for safekeeping. Presently, the sum of US$25,000,000.00 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS) that was deposited by my late father in the Private Security Company has not been claimed.
Before any thing I will like you to promise me that after you receive this money into your account, you will invest it for my family. I am therefore soliciting your help to have this money
transferred into your account before my government get wind of this fund .You know my father was a rebel leader in Angola before his death. My reason for doing this is because it will be difficult for the Angolan government to trace my father's money to an individual's account, especially when such an individual has no relationship with my family, I decided to keep that money for my family use.
I am currently and temporarily living in refugee camp as an asylum seeker with my family for my refugee status' Moreover the political climate in South Africa at the moment is so sensitive and unstable.
In this regards, I will like you to send me information, as to your phone and fax number for an easy communication. My family has agreed to offer you 15% of the total money while 5% is for any expenses that will incur during the course of this transaction and 80% will be for my family investment in your country and will be under your control.
Whenever you are ready I will give you the information needed before the money will be transferred into the your bank account that you will provide to me.
PLEASE YOUR CONFIDENTIALITY IN THIS TRANSACTION IS HIGHLY REQUIRED.
Yours sincerely,
William Savimbi.
(Onbehalf of the Family)
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