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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: Bernard Ngobeni <benngobeni26@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <benngobeni@yahoo.it>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 04:47:46 +0000
Subject: *** Re Peruse This***
Dear Sir, I am Mr. Bernard Ngobeni, a Manager in a security company here in South Africa. Our firm is a security company of high repute with years of outstanding service to the people of Africa especially top government officials and military leaders here in Africa. Overtime there is a particular consignment funds left in our vault in the company, in which I now seek your cooperation to enable us lay claim on this fund amounting to USD 20.5Million. (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only.) I have not discussed this transaction with anybody because it is of top secret. And upon successful transfer 10% will be donated to the orphanage you will be entitle to 20%, 5% will be to off set every expenditure that we might incur as a result of this transaction while the remaining 65% will be for me for investment purposes under your trustee. I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS ABSOLUTLY RISK FREE, I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and my self who is the architect of the transaction. If interested, please forward to me your contact details and telephone numbers to benngobeni@yahoo.it for further procedure. I await your most prompt response. Yours faithfully. Bernard Ngobeni
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