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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: "Tshabalala John" <tshabalalajon2005@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:02:30 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS ENQUIRY
No.4 Dion Street Germiston,
Gauteng, South Africa.
Tel:+27-726 357 842
The Director/CEO.
I am John Tshabalala, the Chairman Contract Review and Payment Board, to the
South
African National Tuberculosis Association (Santa}.
First and foremost, I apologised using this medium to reach
you for a
transactions of this magnitude. Be informed that a member
of South
African Export Promotion Council {SEPC] who was at the
government
delegations to your country during a trade exhibition gave
your
enviable credentials to me. I have decided to seek a
confidential
co-operation with you in the execution of the deal
described hereunder
for the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it as
top secret
because of the nature of this transaction.
I have an over-paid invoice of Seventy Five Million Five
Hundred
! Thousand United State Dollars [US $75.5M] which I wanted to
transfer
abroad with the assistance of a foreign company/individual
or to a
reliable foreigner company's account to receive such funds
on my
behalf, pending when I shall come over to your country for
sharing and
investment.
This amount [US$75.5million] represents the balance of
total supply
value executed on behalf of my association by a foreign
firm, which I
deliberately over-invoiced. Though, the actual contract
cost have been
paid to the original contractor, through a local bank
AFRICA
DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB). Leaving the balance in the tune of
the said
amount, which I have in principles got approval to remit by
telegraphic transfer [T.T]. to any foreign account, you
will provide.
I have decided that for your assistance, in this
transactions, your
share of the total sum will be 25% of the (US75.5 million
DOLLARS),
70% for us! and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses.
Provided
you treat it with utmost confidentiality, and secrecy.
I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will
never
disappoint me when this money eventually gets to your
account.
Endeavour to contact me immediately through my above Phone
number,
whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are
not, it
will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry
out this
deal. I want to assure you that I am in position to make
the payment
of this claim possible, since all documents relating to
this payment
is in my position, provided you can give me a very strong
assurance
and guarantee that our share will be secured.
And please remember to treat this matter as a very
confidential
matter; because we will not comprehend with any form of
exposure and
remember once again that time is of great essence in this
business.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
John Tshabalala
_________________________________________________________________
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