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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: "Marvin Brown" <marvin4brown@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mbrown1@lmxmail.sk
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:52:45 +0000
Subject: GREETINGS...
Good day,
I am Marvin Brown the Director, project. the implementation with Eskom
South Africa and a member of contract tenders board(CTB) of the above
corporation .
Your esteem address was reliably introduced to me at South Africa
chambers of commerce and industry in my search a reliabe individual
company who can handle a strictly confidential transaction, which
involves the transfer of a reasonable sum of money to a foreign
account.
This amount of Money has the total amount of US$30.5M already extracted
from various contracts awarded by corporation. As a result of over
invoicing masterminded by the concerned officials has been drafted to
represent final payment for a contract that has been executed to the
corporation some years back.
The money is now floating in the suspense account of foreign reserved
bank
of South Africa awiating claim by foreign patner which status will now
want you to assume. Now is the optimum period to consummate this
transaction.
Following the presidential directives to all parastatals to settle
all overoutstanding debts owned to both local and foreign
contractors. In my last meeting with the officails involved it was
unanimously agreed that 25% of the total sum will be given to you,
70% will be for my collegue, and me. While 5% will be used to
reimburse the expenses that may be incurred in the processing of the
transfer.
I assure you the transaction is 100% risk free as we concluded every
arrangement to protect the interest of everyone involved. Likewise, all
modalities for the sucessful transfer of this money as been worked out
with the federal ministry of finance and federal reserved bank of South
Africa to facilitate the remittance of this money to your designated
account .
However. I would want to believe that you are honest enough and
will not raise any misgiving attitude in any suspect of the transaction.
more importantly, you will keep this transaction very confidential so
as not to tanish the confidence reposed on this officials by the
government of South Africa, we are also ready to invest part of the
money to any business of your choice in your country.
If this business proposal is of interest to you then kindly contact
me
through my email address: marvin_info@lmxmail.sk waiting your immediate
response,
Yours sincerely,
Marvin Brown
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