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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" <marvin_brown11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: marvin_info@myway.com
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:29:29 +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 relaibly 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$ 30.5
000 000 (thirty million, five
hundred thousand US dollars) 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 over
outstanding 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 andfederal reserved
bank of South Africa to facilitate the remittance of this
money to your destinated 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@myway.com
waiting your immediate response ,
Your sincerely,
Marvin Brown.
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