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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: jack zuma <jacjzuma@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:48:23 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FROM:MR. Jack ZUMA
From: MR. Jack ZUMA
E-mail:jacjzuma@yahoo.co.uk
Dear,
I am Mr Jack Zuma, the manager of Alert Security (Pty)Ltd, South Africa. Our firm is a security company of high repute with outstanding service to the people of Africa.
I have resolved to contact you through this medium based on business proposal that will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I have not discussed this transaction with anybody because it is secrecy. To be explicit and straight to the point, some time early 1997, a reputable client deposited a consignment in our security company, vault for safekeeping. And since then our client has failed to come forward to claim his consignment, which has accumulated a considerable amount of money in demurrage.
Consequently, in our bide to contact this client to redeem the demurrage which the consignment had Accumulated, we discovered that our client(Mohamed Mohd Salaheldin)who deposited the sum of US$40.5million (Fourty Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with our security firm was a foreign client. Unfortunately,this client was among the victims of EGYPTAIR FLIGHT NO.990 that crashed on the 31-10-1999 in U.S.A.
Since the death of our client Mohamed Mohd Saleheldin, none of his relatives or aids had any knowledge of this consignment. Hence out of curiosity, I decided to secretly open the two boxes that our client deposited in our vault. And to my surprise, I discovered that the two boxes that were registered as treasure by our client actually contained a considerable amount of money in United States Dollars amounting to about [US$40.5M].
Since this development I have been nursing plans secretly. I also found out from enquiries and the foreign media that our late clients siphoned a lot of money from his country. It is my conviction that the consignment in our vault was part of the money that our client siphoned, and now that he is dead there is no trace to this money and that is why I want to transfer this money out of South Africa to your country for immediate investment with your assistance.
I am offering you 15% of the total fund, 80% will be for the officials involve and me. While 5% will be set aside for expenses that might incure during the course of this transaction I will immediately arrange and transfer all the right of ownership of this consignment to your name, to facilitate your easy clearance and transfer of the complete funds to your country for onward investment.
This transaction is 100% risk free, and please maintain absolute confidentiality on this matter.
I await your most prompt response through my e-mail address or phone number above.
Kind Regards,
Mr. Jack Zuma (Manager)
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