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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: donpadro@webmail.co.za
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:10:48 +0200
Subject: President Mugabe Family
FROM: DR. DONPEDRO
ATTN:SIR / MADAM,
I understand quite well that this message will sound so strange to you but it is a very serious matter that we need to tackle together very urgent. Before i proceed further,Let me formally introduce myself to you .
I am DR. MONIC P. MUGABE, the first adopted son of president Robert Mugabe, the current Zimbabwean President. I am contacting you today for an urgent assistance to transfer into your account the sum of US$25,000.000.00(TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS). I hope that you may be aware of the recent differences that is going on rigth now between my father and the opposition party in my country, this also brought about the commonwealth community sanctioning my father and freezing all his foreign account both in America and britain.This decision was carried out during the 4days commonwealth meeting that was held in malawi in a part of South East Africa recently.
It will interest you to hear that i never supported my fathers treatment to the white zimbabwean citizens, and this has seriously brought about some personal misunderstanding between me and my father.I have been opposing him since the past five (5) years fighting so hard to see that he leaves the presidential seat after governing for the past 22 years On this account i disassociated myself from him and we do not have any thing in common right now.He even forced me to leave the country with immediate effect after receiving the sanction from the common wealth community, Although he thought that i am behind his delimma. In the year 1996 when i was in good term with my father, he gave me a treasure box containing the sum of US$25,000.000.00 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) to deposite in a private security company in South Africa for safe keeping, so i did exactly as he instructed me without disclosing the actual content of the box to the security company,every documents was signed and documented in
my names and details.this money has been lying in the security company for the past 7 years.
Now that he sent me out on exile, i left zimbabwe to South Africa where i am currently seeking political assylum.My aim of travelling to South Africa was to claim the money and transfer it out of South Africa to any other country that will be safe for investment. I am contacting you therefore on the account that you will support me with your foreign account and to come over to South Africa so that we can both claim the fund together, and then we can travel down to your country for proper investment of the fund.
I have visited the security company and made every neccessary enquiry concernig the fund and it is still intact in the security house.I will compensate you with 20% of the total sum (i.e US$5,000.000.00) and i have set aside another 5% (i.e US$1,250.000.00) for any expenses that may be incured during the transaction. Please this is a very confidential matter that needs utmost secrecy and confidentiality, so i am really pleading to you to try as much as possible to keep every aspect of this confidential. Please also do not reveal it to any one as my hope and futture solely depend on this money and if you are willing to work with me and assist me on this transaction,then do not hesitate to contact me immediately by sending me your TELEPHONE and FAX NUMBERS,and reply me through my e-mail address for us to carry on with the next step of the transaction.
Hoping to receive your positive response soonest.
BEST REGARDS,
DR. MONIC PEDRO MUGABE.
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