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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: "Engr.Magogo Louis" <magogolouis@excite.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 13:54:38 +0200
Subject: Business Offer & Partnership
PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
ENGR.LOUIS MAGOGO
PRETORIA
SOUTH AFRICA.
EMAIL: magogolouis@excite.com
FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION.
It is my great pleasure to write you this letter on behalf
of my colleagues. I got your information from a personal
search in the internet business index. I have decided to
seek a confidential co-operation with you in execution of a
deal hereunder for the benefit of all parties, and hope you
will keep it confidential because of the nature of this
business.
Within the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources where I
work as a Director of Project Implementation, and with
co-operation of four other top officials, we have in our
possession, an overdue payment in US funds. The said funds
represent certain percentage of the contract value executed
on behalf of my Ministry by a foreign contracting firm,
which we the officials over-invoiced to the amount of
US$14,600,000.00 (Fourteen Million, Six Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars). Though the actual contract cost has
been paid to the original contractor, leaving the excess
balance unclaimed.
Since the present elected Government is determined to pay
foreign contractors all debts owed, so as to maintain good
relations with foreign governments and non-governmental
financial agencies. As a result we included ours bills for
approvals with the co-operation of some officials at the
Department of Finance and the Reserve Bank of South Africa
(RBSA). We are seeking your assistance as the beneficiary of
the unclaimed funds, since we are not allowed to operate a
foreign account.
I have the authority of my colleagues involved to propose
that, should you be willing to assist us in this transaction
your share as compensation will be 25% while my colleagues
and I receive 70%, and the balance of 5% for taxes and
miscellaneous expenses incurred.
It does not matter whether or not your company does contract
projects of the nature described here. The assumption is
that your company won the major contract and subcontracted
it to other companies. More often than not, big trading
companies and firms of unrelated fields wins major contracts
and subcontract to more specialized firms for execution.
I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will
not disappoint me. Endeavor to contact me immediately
through my above stated e-mail address above,to indicate
whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are
not, it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to
carry out this deal.I want to assure you that my partners
and myself are in a position to make the payment of this
claim possible provided you can give us a very strong
assurance and guarantee that our share will be secured.It is
important
that you treat this matter with utmost CONFIDENTIALITY as
any form of exposure will negatively affect us since we are
still in active Government Service.
Also your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the
successful execution of this transaction.I have reposed my
confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint us.
Kindly notify me by email for further details, upon your
acceptance of this proposal.
Regards,
Engr. Louis Magogo.
PLEASE DO QUOTE REFERENCE (LM/01)
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