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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: "joseph wamba" <josephwamba5@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:14:31 +0200
Subject: MY Dear Wim pLS
FROM: MR.JOSEPH WAMBA
Tel :27-73-227-1250
EMAIL: josephwamba5@hotmail.com
Dear Wim,
I got your contact address through South Africa Information Exchange (S.A.I
.E, while searching for a safe and accommodative country to invest my fund.
I resolved to contact you based on your company’s vast experience and
excellence in business, which gave me confidence to invest in your company.
But before I proceed I will not forget to introduce my self to you, my name
is MR.JOSEPH WAMBA the only son of LATE DR.PHILIP WAMBA , from
Bulawayo-Zimbabwe.
My father was the Director of Agriculture and Industry in President Mugabe’s
Government, who was murdered with other rich white farmers and some
objective blacks farmers in cold blood by the agent of the ruling junta of
President Robert Mugabe for his alleged support for the opposition party,
the (D.M.C.). Before my father’s death he took me to Johannesburg – South
Africa, to deposit the sum of US$20 M (TWENTY MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS)
with a security company in South Africa, as if he knew the looming danger in
Zimbabwe.
For diplomatic reasons and to reduce the demurrage, my father deposited this
money with the disguise that the actual content in the box was precious item
valued at that amount, where by Security Company, in south Africa are non
legally entitled to transact money. This money was meant for the purchase of
machinery and agro-chemical for the establishment of new farm settlement in
our rural area.
But he could not proceed with the purchase, why? Because the land problem
arose again when President Robert Mugabe introduces a new land act, which
wholly affects all the rich white farmers in Zimbabwe. As a result of this
development and the sudden death of my father, my family and I moved to
South Africa where we are seeking asylum. Due to the clauses in my asylum
status that did not entitle me to do any banking transaction or invest such
huge amount in South Africa.
Moreover, it is not my intention to invest in this country even if the
situation demands me to do that, because South Africa and Zimbabwe have
similar land problem. In respect to that, my good friend if you are willing
to assist me in this issue, I worked out 30% of the total sum for your
assistance rendered to me, 10% have set aside for whatever financial
expenses encountered in the process of transferring this money outside South
Africa, while the remaining 60% is for our investment purpose with you in
your country.
I assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free, because every
necessary arrangement has been made through the help of my lawyer and his
bank friends for the successful transfer of this fund out of South Africa,
after the money have successfully transferred to your overseas account, I
will come over with my mother and my younger sister for the investment
purpose and settling down in your country. If you consider this worth doing,
kindly contact me with the above telephone or Email address for more
detailed information.
Yours faithfully
MR.JOSEPH WAMBA
[For The Family]
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