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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: ferdinandguie2004@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:57:33 +0200
Subject: I NEED YOUR CO- OPERATON
FROM: MR FERDINAND GUEI
TEL + 27 737 391 956
Dear Friend,
I hope that you are well today. I am the director of
logistics and securities in a SECURITY
COMPANY here in SOUTH AFRICA. With
due respect, I decided
to contact you over this business
financial transaction worth the sum of TWENTY TWO MILLION
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($22,300,000m)
in other to entrust this fund into your bank account. This
is an ABANDONED CONSIGNMENT, which I later
found out to be money; this fund belongs to one of our
customers, ANDREAS SCHRANNER (German) who died along with
his entire family on 25th July 2000
in a plane crash disaster. I was very fortune to meet the
deceased file when I was arranging the old and abandoned
customers files of 2000-2001 in other to submit to the
management accordingly for documentation purposes.
Following our security company's policy, it was obviously
indicated and signed lawfully that if such consignments
remains
unclaimed after 3 (three) years without somebody been a
foreigner apply and claim the consignment as the next of
kin, the consignment will be transferred into the security
Treasury
as an unclaimed. This will cause other staff of my company
to notice what
is contained in the box. So the request of you as a
foreigner
is necessarily needed for the claim because a citizen of
South Africa cannot come forward to claim the consignment
since
the law does not pave a way for an indigene to claim such.
Since the real beneficiary of the fund died, my company is
expecting the next of kin to apply for the release of the
consignment for him or her without delay but unfortunately
I
learnt through the investigations which I carried
out that there is nobody behind who can come and claim the
consignment. I need you to act fast so that we do not loose
this
once-in-a-life-time- opportunity. You shall provide me with
your details
so that the lawyer who is assisting me can go to the court
and raise an
affidavit of fact that you are the beneficiary of this
consignment in
order for us to move it to the bank where it will be
comfortable for you
to claim.
SEVENTY PERCENT (70%) of the total fund will be for
me. TWENTY FIVE PERCENT (25%) for you for all your efforts.
five PERCENT
(5%) will be for unexpected
expenses, which may occur during the process.
Thereafter you will help me to visit your country
for sharing the money according to the percentage indicated
above. For the immediate transfer of this fund into your
bank account as arranged,
Please note that you should keep this business
secret until you confirm the transfer into the bank account
which you will provide. And there
is NO RISK in this business.
All necessary documents related to this and which
will prove that you made a legal claim of inheritance shall
be provided.
Please view details of the plane crash on the website
below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
It is true that I prayed before I was pushed forward to
contact you for this business but I want you to also assure
me solemnly that you are a
trustworthy, reliable, honest and capable to avoid cheating
me in this business.
If you are really sure of your integrity, reply me for my
alternative email box (ferdinandguie2004@yahoo.com)
immediately
for more detailed information.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Ferdinand Guei
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