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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: calebmartins0@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:04:06 -0800
Subject: VERY VERY URGENT
FROM: DR. CALEB MARTINS
5 RIDER HAGGARD CLOSE, 2001
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: 27-82--409-7697
ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR/C.E.O.
My greetings,
TRANSFER OF (US$10.5 MILLION) TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STTES DOLLARS
We want to transfer to overseas (US$10.5 Million) from
the Amalgamated Bank of South Africa ABSA. I want to
ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest
person who will be capable and fit to provide either
an existing bank account or to set up a new bank
account immediately to receive this money, even an
empty account can serve to receive this money, as long
as you will remain honest to me till the end for this
important business, trusting in you and believing in
God that you will never let me down either now or in
future.
I am Dr. Caleb Martins, the Auditor General of ABSA,
during the course of our auditing, I discovered a
floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1990
and since 1993 nobody has operated on this account
again. After going through some old files in the
records I discovered that the owner of the account
died without a heir; hence the money is floating and
if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is
Mr. Allan P. Seaman, a foreigner and an industrialist,
he died since 1993. And no other person knows about
this account or anything concerning it, the account
has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved
to me as well that Allan P. Seaman until his death was
the manager of Diamond Safari (Pty.) South Africa.
We want to transfer this sum US$10.5 million (Ten
Million five hundred thousand US Dollars) into a safe
foreigners account abroad, but I don?t know any
foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money can not be approved to a local
person here, but can only be approved to any foreigner
with valid international passport or drivers licence.
The money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the
account Mr. Allan P. Seaman is a foreigner too and the
money can only be approved into a foreign account.
Considering the recommendation I received in your
favour by the South Africa Chamber of Commerce as
regards your suitability and reliability in carrying
out this transaction, I hereby crave your indulgence
to co-operate with me in this mutually beneficiary
transaction. I am revealing this to you, believing in
God that you will never let me down in this business,
you are the first and the only person that I am
contacting for this business, so please reply urgently
so that I will inform you the next step to take.
Please while replying include your private telephone
and fax numbers including the full details of the
account to be used for the deposit. Also note that
upon your reply, we may opt for telephone and fax
communication, as this channel may not be safe for the
transaction. With my influence and the position of
the bank official we can transfer this money to any
foreigner?s reliable account that you can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pending our
physical arrival in your country for shari ng. The
bank official will destroy all documents of
transaction immediately we receive this money leaving
no trace to any place.
As you receive this fund in your account. I will use
my position and influence to obtain legal approvals
for I will apply for annual leave to get visa
immediately. At the conclusion of this business, you
will be given 30% of the total amount, 5% processing
of the transfer,while the remaining 65% will be my.
Please if you are interested in this transaction,
contact me with these telephone and numbers above and
I will give you the procedure of the business.
I look forward to your earliest reply.
Yours sincerely,
DR. CALEB MARTINS
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