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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: dorispeterson1@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 09:24:33 +0200
Subject: I wait for your response.
FROM: Mrs. DORIS PETERSON
ASSISTANCE/INVESTMENT.
Dear Ceo /Sir,
This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial; as a matter of urgency, I am desperately looking for a foreign partner whom I can trust to handle some investment or fund movement. I am MRS. DORIS PETERSON wife of late MR.MENTU PETERSON, who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people. I am writing from Zimbabwe. I got your address from the Internet through the consultancy directory during my search for a reliable and honest person to transact this business with.
I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party- president Robert Mugabe. Because of land and farmland crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to dispossess the land being occupied by white farmers. This action has led to the killing of So me members of opposition party including my husband (MENTU PETERSON), who did do not support this ill-fated action.
But before the death of my Husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he deposited the sum of US$26m (Twenty Six million United States Dollars) in the name of our only son 'RAYMOND at a reputable security Company in SOUTH AFRICA with the intention of using it to open fertilizer-manufacturing company among other companies in our neighboring country (Swaziland) after his university education. On the 29th of July 2001, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him (my husband) to death. Since then, they have been terrorizing my only son, RAYMOND PETERSON, but he managed to escape to a neighboring country, South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee). But his position in South Africa does not permit him to open an account or run any huge financial business.
That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your private account so that you will assist him to invest it in your Country. Hence, if you agree to assist us, we will offer you 20% of the money for your assistance, 10% will set aside from the total sum before sharing our agreed percentage. which is after clearing of the consignment out from the security company.
while 70% will be for our family Investment in your country through your assistance. I need your urgent and confidential response.
Best regards,
DORIS PETERSON (MRS.)
FOR THE FAMILY
Upon your immediate response, I will immediately arrange and send to you all the INFORMATIONS that will empower your smooth transaction with the security company in SOUTH AFRICA and I will also send to you the agreement that will protect both interests.
And also further information about yourself is necessary for I cannot play on this. You can as well read more about the crises in my country and about this situation on the following sites:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html
Waiting for your prompt and positive response..
Thanks.
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