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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: jongomeni@sify.com
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:09:38 +0200
Subject: Asking for assistance
From:Johnson Ngomeni.
Email address:josngomeni@yahoo.com
Telephone:+27-83-343-4547
Asking for assistance
Greetings,
You may be surprise to receive this letter since you do not know me personally.
My name is Johnson Ngomeni, the only son of late Dr Ben Ngomeni, who was murdered with my mother Mrs. Jessey Ngomeni in a land dispute in zimbabwe.
I got your countries business publication through the chamber of commerce here in Johannesburg, South Africa. And after going through your business executive profile,
I decided to write and seek for your assistance in the problem I have.
During the current Crisis against the farmers of the Zimbabwe by supporters of our president Robert Mugabe, to claim all the white owned farms in our country, he ordered all the white farmers to surrender their farms to his party members and their followers.
My father was one of the best farmers in the country and knowing that he did not support the president's political ideology, the president supporters invaded my father's farm burnt down everything, killed my parents and confiscated all my father's investment.
But before the death of my parents in the farm land, my father took me to South Africa to deposit the sum of US$18.5 Million United States Dollars with a Security & Finance Company, as if he knew the looming danger in Zimbabwe. The money was deposited as gem of precious stones to avoid much demurrage from the Security Company. This money was meant for buying of new machineries and chemical for farms and establishment of new farms in Lesotho and Swaziland.
I moved to South Africa where I currently residing as asylum seekers. Of late, when I decided to invest this money here in South Africa, I discovered that the laws of this country prohibit asylum seekers the right to investment or to operate any form of bank account.
Hence I contacted you to assist me in transferring this money out of South Africa to your overseas account for my onward investment.
I must let you know that this transaction is 100% risk-free. The nature of your business does not necessarily matter in this transaction. So, if you are willing and interested to assist me, I have decided to give you 25% of the total sum for your assistance, 70% will be for my investment in your country and the remaining 5% will be mapped out for all expenses we may incure during the course of the transaction.
Note that you would also assist me in investing my own share of the money in your country. Finally, if you are interested to assist me in this transaction, I need your urgent reply through the above Telephone and E-mail. Do not forget to include your private telephone and fax numbers for easier communication. Please, treat this business proposal with absolute confidentiality as we proceed.
Best Regards,
MR. Johnson Ngomeni.
N/B. PLEASE YOU CAN READ ABOUT PROBLEMS IN ZIMBABWE FROM THE LINKS
BELOW.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm.
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