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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: "Tracey Gibson" <agusiakq@o2.pl> (may be fake)
Reply-To: tragtgib@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 19.24.18 +0200
Subject: ... transfer of US$10.2m for investment
Attn:Dear Sir/ Madam,
I am Tracey Gibson, the director of delivery/Operations Transworld Securities, South Africa. Our firm is a company of high
repute with years of outstanding services to the people of Africa especially top Government officials and military leaders here
in Africa. I have resolved to contact you through this medium based on business proposal that will be of mutual benefit to both
of us. I have not discussed this transaction with anyone because it is of top secret. To be explicit and straight to the point,
sometime early 2000 a reputable client of ours deposited a consignment in our company's vault for safekeeping.
And since then our client has failed to come forward to claim his consignment, which has accumulated to a considerable
amount of money.
Consequently, in our bid to contact this client to redeem the demurrage which his consignment had accumulated we
discovered that our client was the former President of the Federation Republic of Zaire, who died of illness after he was
dethroned in the same year the consignment was entrusted into our care. Since the death of our client President Mobutu
Seseseko, none of his benefactors has come forward to claim the consignment with us, which means that non of his relatives
or aids has any knowledge of this consignment.Hence out of curiosity I decided to secretly open the two boxes that our client
deposited in our vault. And to my surprise I discovered that the boxes that were registered as treasure by our client actually
contained a considerable amount of money in United States Dollars amounting to about US$10.2million US Dollars. Since this
development I have been nursing plans secretly. I also found out from enquiries and the foreign media that our late client
siphoned a lot of money from his country while he was in office as head of state.It is my conviction that the consignment in our
vault was part of the money that our client siphoned and now that he is dead there is no trace to this money in our care. I am
now soliciting your noble assistance to assist me in transferring this money out of South Africa to your country for immediate
investment with your assistance. I have also decided that you will generously be entitled to 20 percent while 5 percent covers
taxation and miscellaneous expenses and 75 percent from the total amount met for me will be invested.
Upon my receipt of your reply confirming your willingness to assist me, i will immediately arrange and transfer all the rights of
ownership of this consignment to your name to facilitate your easy clearance and transfer of the fund to your country for
onwards investment. This transaction is 100% risk free. Please maintain absolute confidential on this issue. I await your most
prompt response through my telephone or e-mail address.
Yours faithfully,
Tracey Gibson
Tel: +27-8447455701
E-mail: tragtgib@yahoo.com
Director, Delivery/Operations, Transworld
Securities, South Africa
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