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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: "Robinson Harris" <robinson_harris@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: robin_harry13@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:35:42 +0000
Subject: From Robinson:(your help please........)

Closest Avenue GHN
Ernest Oppenheimer
Road Bruma Lake,
Johannesburg,2196
South Africa.

Dear Sir/Madam,

( RE: TRANSFER OF ($125,000.000.00 USD)
ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS


Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics
.The greatest greetings to you Sir/Madam,Before I start,I am aware that this
is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a relationship. I want
to transfer ($125,000.000.00 USD) One Hundred & Twenty five million United
States Dollars from a Prime Bank here in South Africa to an oversea account.
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is
by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential.I am sure and have
confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of
this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the
said amount into your safe account for unward investment.

You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank
account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of
this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never
let me down either now or in future.


I am the personal account officer to the great late INDUSTRIALIST who
has an account in one of the top banks here in South Africa. The account was
opened in 1998 and he died in 2003 without a written or oral WILL and since
2003 nobody has operated on this account again 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 a foreigner and no other person knows
about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and until his death he was the manager of the company.My
investigation
through the National immigration department proved to me as well that he was
single as at the time of his entry into the Republic of South Africa.
The amount in this account is USD$125 Million ( One Hundred & Twenty five
Million United States Dollars ) only.

As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for
investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the
management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct
information to this account which I will give to you immediately, if
you are interested to do this business with me.There is no risk in this
business. With my position and my personal contact with the manager of the
bank, the money can be transferred to any account you can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in
your country for sharing.


We will start the first transfer with Twenty five million [$25,000.000].
Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of $100 Million to your
account. 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 who has the correct information of the account which I will
provide for you.


So you should provide me with your correct account details where you will
like the fund to be transferred to, or you can set up a new account for the
transfer even an empty account is ok. At the conclussion of the transfer you
will take 35%,5% will be for any expenses both parties incurred in the
process of this business and the remaining 60% will be for me. As soon as I
hear from you and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me down
once the fund goes into your account I will then start the processing of the
transfer of the fund to your account without further delay.


Contact me urgently via telephone or email privately for further details
and You can call me on:
+874-763593730 OR
+871-763593730
+882-1621168729


When calling do not add South African country code beacuse it's a
satelite phone only add your country dial out code and dial direct. You can
as
well Fax to me on:+874-763593731


Thanks.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr Robinson Harris

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