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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27732128447 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • david_moyo_20111@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: david moyo <david_moyo_20111@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 04:23:30 -0800 (PST)
Subject: ABSOLUTLY CONFIDENTIAL


FROM:MR.DAVID MOYO
TEL: +27-73-2128-447
EMail:david_moyo_20111@yahoo.com



ABSOLUTLY CONFIDENTIAL

My Dear,

This letter is not intended to cause you any embarrassment in what ever form rather is in good
faith from a family in dear need of assistance following knowledge of your high repute and trustworthiness, is born out of the difficulty situation that our family has been engulfed in since our father and bread winner of our family was forced to relinguish his position.

My name is DAVID MOYO, the elder son of Abdul MOYO of zimbabwe. I got your contact through South African Trade Journal here in my search for reliable company/personal accountwho can assist us in transferring this money out of South Africa.

During the current war against farmers in zimbabwe from the support of ourpresident Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrenderall thier farms to his party membera nad hisfollowers.

My father is one of the best farmers in our country and because he didnot support Mugabe's ideas,mugabesupporters nvaded my fathers farms and burnt everything in the farm ,killing my father and took everthing he had. Before his death, he had deposited with one security company in Johannesburg, South Africa the sum of US$14.5M (fourteen million five
hundred thousand united state dollars) After the death of our father, we decided to move to the
Republic of South Africa where he had deposited the money in the security company as valuables.


It is in this regards that I, my mother and my two sisters decided to contact overseas firms and
companies that will assist us to move this money out of south Africa becouse as asylum seekers we are not allowed to operate any bank account within south Africa. we have agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for your assistance, 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the courtesy of this transaction and 75% will be for our family
investment inyour country.

All I want you to do is to furnish me with your entire personal and fax number and phone number for easy communication. you can contact me on the above
telephone number and e-mail address. email me with this e-mail david_moyo_20111@yahoo.com

Note that this transaction is 100% free and absolutely confidential.

Thanks and best regards
DAVID MOYO

(on behalf of the family)




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