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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: "ZUMA ANTHONY" <zuma_anthony@msn.com>
Reply-To: zuma_anthony@zwallet.com
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:22:12 +0000
Subject: DID YOU RECEIVED MY MAIL?
ENGR. ZUMA ANTHONY,
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALS AND ENERGY,
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA.
Dear Friend,
It is my great pleasure in writing you this letter on behalf of my
colleagues to seek your assistance to enable us to own properties and invest
in the stable economy of your country. I apologize if this mail does not
suit your personal or business ethics.
I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution
of the deal in strict confidence. As senior civil servants in the South
Africa Government, the South African civil service laws (Code of Conduct
bureau) forbid us to own a foreign account. Within the Department of
Minerals an Energy where I work as a Director of Audit and Project
Implementation and with the co-operation of two other top officials, we have
in our possession as overdue payment in US funds. The said funds represent
certain percentage of the total contract value executed on behalf of my
Department by a foreign contracting firm which we the officials
over-invoiced to the amount of US$14.500,000.00(Fourteen Million Five
Hundred Thousand US Dollars).Though the actual contract cost has been paid
to the original contractor, leaving the excess balance unclaimed.
Since the present elected Government is determined to pay foreign
contractors all debts owed so as to maintain good relationship with foreign
government and non-government agencies, we include our bills for approvals
with the Department of Finance and the Reserve Bank of South Africa
(RBSA).We are seeking your assistance to front as beneficiary of the
unclaimed funds, since we are not allowed to operate foreign accounts.
Details and change of beneficiary information upon application for claim to
reflect payment and approvals will be secured on behalf of you/your
company.
The business itself is 100% safe and secure, provided you treat it with
utmost confidentiality. It does not matter whether you/your company does
contract projects as a transfer of powers will be secured in favour of
you/your company. Also your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the
successful execution of this transaction. If you will like to assist us as a
partner, then indicate your interest. All other information to facilitate
the remittance of the funds will be revealed to you in due course. For your
assistance, your share as compensation will be US$3.625m (25%),while my
colleagues and I receive US$9.425m(65%) and the balance of US$1.450m(10%)
will be used to settle taxation and other miscellaneous expenses in the
course of transferring the funds to your account.
Please indicate your direct telephone and direct fax number when replying
this business proposal so I could call you when necessary. If you are not
interested, kindly also indicate so that it will enable me to contact other
foreign partner with recommendations to carry out this deal.
for further details upon your acceptance of this proposal.
Thanks for your co-operation.
Regards,
ENGR. ZUMA ANTHONY.
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