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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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From: "pet mokoena" <petmokoena2003@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:09:29 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTAIL!
FROM THE DESK OF MR. PETER MOKOENA
FIRST NATIONAL BANK LIMITED (S.A.)
AUDITOR MANAGER.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a STAFF OF ONE OF THE LEADING BANKS IN SOUTH AFRICA. I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us. In my department we discovered an abandoned large sum of money belonging to one of our Foreign Costumer. There is an account opened in this Bank in 1994 and since late 2000 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 to the Government. The owner of this account is MR MORRIS THOMPSON, WIFE THELMA THOMPSON AND DAUGHTER SHERYL THOMPSON, a foreigner from U.S.A, He was a contractor/consultant to KRUGER MINING (SA) INC a South Africa Government Own Mining Company. He was a Geologist by profession and he died since Feb 4th, 2000. He died in an air crash along with his family (wife and only daughter) in Feb 4th, 2000 in an Alaska Airlines Flight 261 with other passengers on board.
You can confirm this from the website below from publisher by
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
No other person know about this account or anything concerning it, the Account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything about his account and the amount involved is (US$12.5M) Twelve Million five Hundred Thousand 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. Morris Thompson is a foreigner too.
Our constraint is to be able to source an honest and trustworthy individual, to whom we can remit these funds and act as trustee pending our visit or coming over, since our period of disengagement from the civil service is near. We are presently affected by the South Africa civil service code of conduct laws that prohibits civil servants from operating private /foreign accounts. I have the authority of my partners in office to propose that should you be willing to assist us in this transaction, your share as compensation will be (30%) while my colleagues and I receive (60%), 10% for miscellaneous expenses like the accumulated taxes and others Levis. This transaction is 100% risk free provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Furthermore, your area of specialization and country is not a hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction.
Kindly contact me upon your willingness to assisting us through my private email address petermokoenazzz@yahoo.co.uk
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Peter Mokoena
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