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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: monikzuma@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:20:01 +0200
Subject: ASSIST FAMILY IN NEED

FROM:Mrs Monica sankzuma
ADD:2-3 Nelson Mandela Avenue,
Sandton City, Johannesburg,
South Africa.
Alternative Email address:monikzuma@hotmail.com
TEL:+27-73-145-0644

Attn: Dear Sir/Madam,

This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial;as a matter of urgency, i am desparately
looking for a foriegn partner whom i can trust to handle some investment or fund movement. I am MRS. MONICA SANKZUMA wife of late MR.MENTU SANKZUMA
,who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and sponsored
assasins of the tyrant Robert Mugabe.
I got your address from 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 farm land crisis in Zimbabwe,the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irrate party members to disposess
the land being occupied by white farmers. This action has led to the killing of some members of opposition party...The MDC including my husband(MENTU
SANKZUMA),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$15.4m (Fifteen million four hundered Thousand
United States Dollars)in the name of our only son 'FIDEL' at a reputable security
company in South Africa with the intention of using to open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our neighbouring 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, FIDEL SANKZUMA,
but he managed to escape to a neighbouring country, South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee).
I and my two daughters are right now in the Republic of South Africa as Assylum refugees because of the social political and economic crises in
my country (Zimbabwe) which detoriates everyday by day especially AFTER THIS RECENT VISIT OF THE U.S PRESIDENT G.W.BUSH TO AFRICA AND CONDERMED THE
MUGABE'S REGIME. Also, there is massive arrest and five years detainsion of all the protestants and the MDC supporters as ordered by President
RobertMugabe.
Conseqently,our status/position here in South Africa does not permit us to open an account or run any huge financial business. That is why I
want this fund to be transferred out of Africa continent (BEFORE IT IS FROOZEN BY THE ROARING LION of the tyrant Robert Mugabe's regime) into your
private/company account so that you will assist us 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 be for the possible expenses incurred in the
process of this transaction, while 70% will be for our family investment(s) in your country through your assistance.

I need your urgent and confidential response.
Best regards,
MONICA SANKZUMA(MRS.)
FOR THE FAMILY

NOTE:You can as well read more about the crises in my country and about this situation on the following
THREE sites:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html
www.dailynews.zimbabwe.com
Whenever you call the DIRECT NUMBER ABOVE, YOU WOULD EITHER GET ME OR MY SON FIDEL "ONLY" ON THE LINE. SO WHOEVER IS ON THE LINE AT THE TIME OF YOUR
CALL, FEEL FREE TO AIR YOUR VIEWS..OK.
Waiting for your prompt and positive response
Thanks.
Mrs Monica sankzuma

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