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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: john maha <johnmaha07@yahoo.ca>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:16:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER
Dear Sir,
CONFIDENTIAL
I know that this message will come to you as a surprise since we don’t
know each other before, but for purpose of introduction, I am MR. JOHN MAHA, THE Chief ACCOUTANT of the AMALGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (ABSA).
There is an account opened in this bank in 1980 and since 1990 nobody
has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in
the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it
would be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr.ANDREAS
OLIVET and a miner at Kruger gold company a geologist by profession and
he died since 1990. No other person knows about this
account or any thing concerning it,the account has no other beneficiary
and my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know
anything about this account and the amount involved is (USD$ 26M)
twenty six million United States Dollars.
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign
account because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the
account is Mr. ANDREAS OLIVET is a foreigner too. I know that this
message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before. We will sign an agreement, but be sure that it is real and a genuine
business.
Please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take
immediately. Send also your private telephone and fax number including
the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. I want us to
meet face to face or sign a binding agreement to bind us together so that
you can receive this money into a foreign account or any account of your choice where the fund will be safe. And I will fly to your country for
withdrawal and sharing and other investments. I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with foreign account and foreign beneficiary.
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the
management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner, who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you later, if you are
able and willing to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust
according to my instructions and advice for our mutual benefit because this
opportunity will never come again in my life. I need truthful person in
this business because I don't want to make mistake, I need your strong
assurance and trust.With my position now in the office I can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country forsharing. I will destroy all documents of transactionb immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place. You can also come to
discuss with me face to face after which I will make this remittance in
your presence and two of us will fly to your country at least two days after
the money going into the account.
I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you
that you are ready to act and receive this fund in your account. I will use
my position and influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of
this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms of the
ministries and foreign exchange departments.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 25% of the total
amount, 70% will be for me, and while 5% will be for expenses both
parties might have incurred during the process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply through my E-mail address below:
johnmaha07@yahoo.ca or you can contact me directly on my
telephone number +27 73 234 9516 .
NB PLEASE DROP YOUR MESSAGE IF YOU CAN'T GET ME ON THE LINE AS I ALWAYS OFF MY MOBILE WHEN I AM IN THE OFFICE.
Yours truly,
JOHN MAHA.
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