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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: emmanuel khumalo <info.khumalo1@jmail.co.za>
Reply-To: info.khumalo@jmail.co.za
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:02:20 +0200
Subject: I tried calling you
Date:7th July 2007
From the Desk of:
Engr.Emmanuel Khumalo.
South Africa
Direct Tel: +27 -73-988-7785
Direct Fax: +27- 86-603-4060
Good Day,
I want to apologize if this will interrupt your privacy. I need somebody
we can rely on and trust with the confidence of our intention. I write to
inform you of our desire to acquire estates, shares or landed properties
in your country on behalf of other members of my Committee.
Considering our very strategic and influential position, we would want the
transaction to be strictly as confidential as possible. The identity of
the others involved will remain undisclosed at least for now, until the
completion of the transaction. South Africa's present Financial Policy
does not favor us having large sums of money in our possession for now,
Hence our desire to have an oversea agent. I have therefore been directed
to inquire if you would agree to act as our oversea agent in order to
actualize this transaction.
The deal in brief is that the funds with which to carry out our proposed
investments in your country is presently in an escrow account in the South
Africa Reserve Bank and we need your assistance to transfer the funds to
your Country or any safe account outside your country that is convenient
For this you shall be considered to have executed a contract for the
aforementioned Department of Minerals & Energy here in South Africa where
we work. The contract sum which runs into (US$14,500,000) Fourteen
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only of which your
share shall be 30% if you agree to be our overseas agent.
Your area of specializations does not matter in this transaction; all that
is required of you is a safe account and your willingness to assist us to
acquire properties in your country. As soon as payment is effected and the
amount mentioned above is successfully transferred into an account that
you will nominate, we intend to come over for our remaining 60% share
because 5% will be for expenses/Taxation during the process of the
transfer and remaining 5% will be for charity organization. In our
acquiring of properties, you shall serve as our agent. It might interest
you to note that, you have to reassure us in every way you can and will be
capable in this regard, as we have heard & know that there are a lot of
scams out there and we have lost a lot too, as a result of seeking
assistance from the wrong hands/partner.
Last two year, a similar transaction we made with a foreign company to
award a major DME contract at the Port Elizabeth Island, was carried out
with one Fernandez Yu of Taiwan but after securing the payment approvals,
and payment effected, Fernandez Yu changed his numbers and addresses, and
was no where to be found on our getting to Taiwan. That was how we lost
US$7.5Million. So this time around, I will be with you before the
remittance is made into your provided account to avoid future occurrence
and allow trust to play a minimal role until conclusion.
You are requested to communicate your acceptance of this proposal via my
email address: (info.khumalo@jmail.co.za) with your Telephone/Fax numbers
and your address. We shall then discuss in details the modalities for
seeing this transaction through. If however, you are indisposed to assist,
kindly destroy this letter in view of the confidentiality of the proposed
transaction and interest of personalities involved. But, if this
transaction is successful, l can assure that my partner will do his utmost
best to secure a contract with DME for you, if you so desire in the
nearest future.
Finally, we wish to reassure you that the process is hitch/risk free and
your utmost confidentiality should be our priority right now. I await your
response.
Yours sincerely,
Engr. Emmanuel Khumalo
Tel: +27 73 988 7785
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