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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: dembo family <dembofamily03@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:36:24 +0100
Subject: RE:LETTER
MR.JAMES AND MRS CECELIA DEMBO. EMAIL: dembofamily@mailbox.co.za NO: 14 STONE QUARRY CLOSE SANTON, JOHANNESBURG. SOUTH AFRICA.
SUBJECT: RELOCATION/PARTNERSHIP ..
ATTENTION:
I strongly believe that this message would come to you as .a surprise. In fact, it is in respect of the strict confidence given to me that you are honest and versatile in business that motivated my interest to seek your cooperation in this transaction. My father is late General Antonio Dembo the former Vice president of UNITA rebels in Angola. He was the Chairman of Angolan Petroleum Monitoring Committee (APMC) 1992 to 2002. Sadly, he died after an injury sustained during the ambush on The UNITA rebel on 27th February 2002 where the President of UNITA, Dr. Jonas Savimbi was killed. As you might have known, Petroleum and gold is the major revenue source in Angola (Southern Africa). My father made a lot of money through the job but could not invest the money immediately to avoid probe by the military government. He was able to save the sum of $35m (Thirty five Million United States Dollars). He deposited this sum with a security firm in Johannesburg in South Africa.
The documents used in these depositions, together with the key of the safe, are with my mother. In my father’s will, he instructed that this money must be invested overseas with the help of a foreigner who is reliable and trustworthy. So as to avoid probe by the federal government of Angola, since he was a general in the warm torn Angola, and could not have amassed such wealth legally.
With his death, I came to South Africa to live with my mother as a refugee but the violence and high incidence of robbery and murder here is alarming. Hence, I am contacting you to assist my mother and me in relocating to your Country. Consequently, I now seek your cooperation to come to South Africa so that we can open a company account with your Company name here in Johannesburg, and then the Security Company can deposit the money into the Company account for transfer to any account which you may provide. Again, whereby you can not come to South Africa we can improvise another means to get the funds into your account.
My mother and I have agreed to give 20% of the total sum to you while 65% will be for us then, the remaining 5% will be used to offset the bills incurred in the Course of the transfer while 10% will be for charity. The most important thing is to assist us to relocate to your country to live. However you are advised to reply me immediately and when I receive all your favorable reply you will be given all necessary details and documents. You can rich us through alternative phone and email: 27-83-621-8662: dembofamily@mailbox.co.za
Thanks for your co-operation.
MR.JAMES AND MRS CECELIA DEMBO.
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