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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: Rose Williams <roswilz3@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 04:03:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT HELP


FROM Rose M Williams

{THE DIRECTOR}

DEAR SIR/MARDAM,

With due respect, trust and humility, I write you this proposal, which I believe, would be of great interest to you. I found your contact while I was doing a private research on the Internet for a reliable and capable foreign partner that will assist me and my family.
I am Mrs.Rose Williams the wife of MR.KENNETH WILLIAMS (late) of Zimbabwe. During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from the support of our President Robert
Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country, all the white farmers were ordered to surrender their farms to his party members and his followers.

My husband who was one of the best farmers in our country and treasury of the farmers co-operation did not support his idea and so the party members invaded my husbands farms and burnt everything in the farm, killed my husband and made away with a lot of items in my husbands farm.

After the death of my husband, my children and I decided to move out of Zimbabwe because of our lives were in danger with the money that my husband kept in his hidden safe in
my house. The amount contained in the safe in my house is US$20m(Twenty million US Dollars) and we decided to code the money and move to the Republic of South Africa where we
deposited the money in a Security Company as a valuable item. So I decided to make contact with an overseas firm whom will assist me to move this money out of South Africa,
because we are asylum seekers here in South Africa.

So if you consider this proposal, we have agreed to give you 30% of the total sum for helping us to move this money out of south Africa and 5% will be mapped out for expenses
both of us may incur during this transaction and 65% will be for me and my family to invest in your country. All I want is for you to furnish me your details and your personal phone and fax numbers and your email address for easy communication and more information.
.For the sole purpose of this matter,I wish You can contact my son with this number + 27 73 208 8099


THANKS AND I AM WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT RESPOND

BEST REGARDS

MRS Rose M Williams
{FOR THE FAMILY}




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