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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: mpofufrank_01@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:40:27 +0200
Subject: URGENT TRANSFER.
FROM; MR, FRANK MPOFU
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
ATTN;
You may be surprised to receive this letter from me since you do not know me personally,first, I am frank mpofu, the first son of MR Williams N. mpofu a well famous famer, who was recently murdered in the
land dispute in Zimbabwe. I was furnished with viable information from the South Africa Information Center through a consultant here in Johannesburg and decided to contact you.
Before the death of my father, he had taken me to Johannesburg to deposit the sum of US$28 Million (TWENTY Eight Million and United States Dollars) in a security company as if he foresaw the looming danger in Zimbabwe. This amount was meant for the purchase of
new machines and chemicals for the farms and establishment of a new farm in Swaziland. This land problem came when the President of Zimbabwe MR ROBERT MUGABE introduced a new Land Act which wholly affected the rich white and black farmers. This resulted to the
killing and mob action by the Zimbabwean war veterans and some lunatics in the society. In fact, a lot of people have been killed because of this land-reformed act of which my father was one of the victims.
It is against this background, that my family and I,who are currently staying in South Africa decided to transfer my father s money to a foreign account since the law of South Africa prohibits a refugee (asylum seeker) to open any bank account or to be involved in any financial transaction. As the eldest son of my father I am saddled with the responsibility of seeking a genuine foreign account into which this money could be transferred to, without the knowledge of my government who are bent on taking everything we have got, and South Africa seems to be playing along with them. I am faced with the dilemma of investing this amount of money in South Africa for fear of going through the same experience in the future since both counties have the same political history. More so, the South Africa Foreign Exchange policy does not allow such investment as an asylum seeker.
As a businessman, I have to entrust my future and that of my family in your hands, I must let you know that this transaction is risk free. If you accept to assist me and my family, all I want you to do is to make
arrangements and come to Johannesburg, South Africa,so that you can open a non-resident account which will aid us in transferring the money into any account you will nominate overseas.This money I intend to use for investment. I have two options for you, firstly, you can choose to have a certain percentage of the money for nominating your account for this transaction, or you can go into partnership with me for the proper
profitable investment of the money in your country.Whichever the options you want, feel free to notify me. I have also mapped out 10% of this money for all kinds of expenses incurred in the process of this
transation.
If you do not prefer a partnership, I am willing to give you 20% of the money while the remaining 70% will be for my investment in your country. Contact me with the above E-mail address(mpofufrank_01@hotmail.com ) while I implore you to maintain secrecy required in this transaction. And no matter the level of transaction we are in, You must keep this business secret and confidential, Please.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. frank mpofu(for the family)
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