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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: "Maxwell Nkomo" <maxwellgil@maktoob.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: maxwell_gil@maktoob.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:12:23 +0100
Subject: Can i trust you?
FROM:Maxwell Gil Nkomo
DAKAR, SENEGAL
AFRICA.
EMAIL:maxwellgil@katamail.com
Dear Beloved One.
Thank you for giving me your time;Please be patient and read my email
to you, this letter might come as a surprise to you,and you could be
wondering where I got your contact.
I got your address through a personal search on the internet for someone
relaible and trustworthy,so i decided to contact you for an assistant,
which I do hope you will take your time to consider. My name is MAXWELL
GIL NKOMO,the eldest son of Dr.MARSHALL NKOMO, from Zimbabwe.
During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporters
of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms for his
party members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrender
all their farms to his party members and his followers.
My father was one of the biggest farmers in our country and because he
strongly opposed Mugabe's ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded my father's
farm and burnt everything in the farm, killing my father in the incident
and made away with a lot of items in my father's farm.
Before my father's death,he had made deposite with a Security Company
in Europe, the sum of US$12.5(Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars).He intended to use the money in buying new machinery and
to set up a new farm in Swaziland. After the death of my father,l decided
to escape with my other siblings to another country because of continued
harassment and threat from Mugabe and his supporters,we could only get as
far as the republic of SENEGAL where we are now seeking political
refuge.As the eldest man in the Family, i have been making contact with
the company to see how i can make the claim without going there but to no
avail,i was told that the claim can only be made by me or my father's
representative in thier office.This is the reason why i decided to contact
you to assist us since I am not able to travel outside this country
particularly to Europe where the company is located. I am seeking for your
assistance to help us go to the security company as our father's
representative for the claims, For your role in this transaction,my family
and i have agreed to offer you 30% of the total sum for your assistance,
5% will be set-aside for any expenses that maybe incurred in the course of
this transaction and the remaining 65% will be for my family and i to
invest in any lucrative investment.All i want you to do is to help me
finish this transaction and at the sametime help me to invest some of our
share of the money in a lucrative business in your country. Please get
back to me if you can be of assistance via my private email address
(maxwellgil@katamail.com ). for better discussion or should incase you
have any questions you would like to ask,please feel free to contact me
any time via email.Thanks and God bless as i will be looking forward to
your swift and positive response.Please do not fail to call on telephone:
+221 6641899.
Best regards,
MR.Maxwell Gil Nkomo
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