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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: "rosemary moyo" <rmzimza@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:34:58 +0200
Subject: PLEASE RESPOND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
FROM: MRS ROSEMARY MOYO
TEL: 27-73-884-6801
HELLO,GOOD DAY.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
You might be surprised to receive this letter from me since you don?t know
me personally. I am MRS ROSEMARY MOYO the wife of late MR. JOSEPH MOYO who
was murdered by the
Zimbabwean war veterans and irate black people. I am writing this letter
from Harare, Zimbabwe, to solicit for your special assistance to my 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 disposed the land
being occupied by
the white farmers. This action led to killing of some members of opposition
party including my husband who did not support this ill-fated action. But
before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he
smuggled out the sum of US$25.5 million dollars (Twenty five million, five
Hundred Thousand united state dollars) to South Africa and deposited it in a
Security Company with the intention of using it for the purchase of farm
machinery and chemicals for agricultural Purpose in South Africa and
establishment of a new farm in Swaziland.
This money was deposited in a box as family valuables to avoid much
demurrage in the Security Company. On the 29 January 2003 the war veterans
and some supporters of
(ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed my husband to
death and my second son of 28yrs. Since then they have been terrorizing my
son BENJAMINE but he managed to escape to neighboring country South Africa
as a
political asylum seeker (refugee).
His position in South Africa does not permit him to open an account or to
operate any business. That is why I want this fund to be transferred in your
account so that you will
assist him to invest the money in your country. If you accept to assist us,
all I want from you is to arrange and come down to Johannesburg South Africa
so that you can help
him to open a non-resident bank account in your name which will aid us in
transferring the money into your nominating account overseas.
I have two options for you, firstly, you can choose to have certain
percentage of the money for nominating your account in this transaction or
we can go into partnership with you for the proper profitable investment of
the money in your country whichever the option you want feel free to notify
him. He will then furnish you with every detail you need to
know.
We have also mapped out 5% of the total sum for any expenses that might be
incurred during the time of this transaction. If you do not prefer a
partnership, we are willing to give you 25% of the money while the remaining
70% will remain for my family, if you are really capable and willing to
assist us please contact him immediately in South Africa with this telephone
+ 27-72-302-4106, Finally please treat this matter as urgent as possible.
Thanks for you?re mutual co-operation. I?m expecting you be soonest and
urgent response.
Best Regards,
MRS ROSEMARY MOYO.
(FOR THE FAMILY)
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