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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: "Mr. Duke Glenwood" <woodag4@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ac123ac@zwallet.com
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:05:59 +0200
Subject: Reply immediately.
#123CB/PBV,MAIN CITY,
BOKSBURG SOUTH,
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA.
Dear Friend,
Do not be perplexed with this note. It's all about soliciting your attention
to transfer the sum of {$126Million USD) Hundred and Twenty six million
United States Dollars}from a Bank in Africa.
I am Mr. Duke Glenwood, The Auditor General (AG), an equivalent of American
Certified
Public Accountant {C.P.A} and a personal account officer to the Deceased, I
believe that we can do this business without any hitches, if only you will
be trusted and then follow simple instructions for a smooth success of this
business.
We will start the first transfer with Twenty six million [26,000.000] upon
successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account.
I have a solid master plan/arrangements on how best to actualize this
objective. So, I am not trying to experiment with a transaction of this
nature and magnitude, for such an opportunity will not/never ever come my
way again in my lifetime.
My fear now is if this money will be safe in your hand/custody pending my
physical
arrival in your country for sharing and investments.
You can provide either an existing bank account or set up a new bank a/c
immediately
to receive this money. Even an empty a/c without any money in it can serve
to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of
this
important business, trusting in you that you will never let me down either
now or in
future.
If we agree and never to disagree, you will stand to get 35%, 5% for local
and International expenses incurred by both parties on the course of the
transfer, while the balance of 60% will be for me.
Note: The owner of this account is Mr. Howard Sweeney, a foreigner and a
miner. Since 1993 no other person knows about this account or any thing
concerning it.
My investigation proved to me that the account has no other beneficiary and
that
Mr. Howard Sweeney until his death was the manager Sweeney Coy.(pty). SA.
Note: The deceased died without oral or written "WILL" and without any
"HEIR". The deceased is a foreigner and because he is a foreigner, this fund
cannot be released to an indigenous bank a/c here, IT MUST BE A FOREIGNER
WITH A VALID BANK ACCOUNT AND VALID INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT.
So it is based on this that you are contacted.
As you know INHERITANCE is not a crime all over the world, but may be a
crime only
when you did not follow the Rules of the International Law of Inheritance.
In this
transaction we shall follow strictly all the rules of the International Law
of
Inheritance and obtain all the necessary transaction documents from the
appropriate
authorities to prove that the inheritance/fund is genuine.
Waiting for your positive response URGENTLY through my Private email
address.: ac123ac@zwallet.com
Best Regards,
Mr. Duke Glenwood.
NOTE: Reply through my private email address: ac123ac@zwallet.com
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