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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: "JEFF MOG" <mogjeffs_145@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 10:35:37 -0800
Subject: CAN YOU ASSIST ME SECURE THIS BOX?


Dear Sir/Madam,

This letter might come to you as a surprise as we have
not met
before,but I believe that you would be compelled to
help me after going through
the contents of this letter.
My name is Mr Jeff Mog,a divorcee, I am a Zimbabwean.
I am a farmer in
Zimbabwe.
Basically, I was involved in Agricultural
production,until August
(2003), when the government of Robert Mugabe decided
to seize all
farm-land(s) owned by whites in Zimabwe (without
compensation). He (Robert
Mugabe) did not stop at that; he also went on to expel
all White farmers in
Zimbabwe.He implored the services of his war veterans
to undertake this
seizure. The war veterans have been accused
(correctly) of being behind
the violent occupation of white-owned commercial farms
in which an
estimated 70,000 farm workers have been displaced. At
least, over hundreds
white farmers and black settlers have been killed
since the farm
invasions began in February 2000.
As at this momemt, most of us have grudgingly gone
back to Europe,while
some (a few) of us are still in Zimbabwe.We have
decided that we must
see this problem to the end. Although we know that we
are taking a great
risk by staying here in Zimbabwe. A the moment, our
phone lines are
bugged,and all our movements are being monitored by
Zimbabwes (Robert
Mugabe4s)secret Police. Therefore email is the safest
means of
communication for now.
We (White farmers in Zimbabwe) have taken our case to
the United
Nations,and even with the threats of sanctions and the
subsequent sanctions
from the West against the Zimbabwean Authorities,
Robert Mugabe (The
President of Zimbabwe) still remains adamant. He is
insisting that our
farm land (some of which we bought with our money and
most of which We
inherited from our fathers) belongs to the (his)
government of Zimbabwe.
Anyway, as soon as I heard the rumour about the
possible seizure of
Ourfarm land(s) and Our subsequent expulsion from
Zimbabwe,I immediately
soldpart of my farm land and withdrew all the money I
had in Zimbabwean
banks (Both savings and current account).
Since I could not keep the money in Zimbabwe, I used
the services of a
Diplomatic Courier Company to move this money
(registered as official
documents) out of Zimbabwe to Europe.At present, my
money totalling
US$28,750,000. (Twenty eight million, seven hundred
and fifty thousand
United States Dollars) is in Europe and hopefully, it
would be paid into an
offshore account. Can you help me? Are you
trustworthy? Can you handle
this money? Are you capable of handling this money?
If you can, please contact me
All you need to do is to claim this money from the
Courier Company. You
will be required to contact the Courier Company that
moved this money
(official documents) out of Zimbabwe and to Europe.
All necessary particulars which can facilitate and
enable you claim the
money on my behalf will be forwarded to you as soon as
your consent to
proceed is received.
For your assistance, you will be entitled to 20% of
the total sum. You
are also obliged to help/advise on the proper and most
convenient way
of investing this money in your country, since this
money cannot be
brought back in cash to the Country of origin.
Hopefully, You will consider this request and respond
positively. If
you
are still in doubt after the receipt of this mail,
please do not
hesitate
to contact me and ask question(s) that might hinder
your decision on
this matter.
I await your favourable response.

yours sincerely,

Jeff Mog

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