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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: themba lindani <themba.lindani1@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:30:16 -0600
Subject: hello
Dear Friend,
I am Mr. Themba Lindani, Auditor, foreign remittance department Absa Bank Admin, and asking for your indulgence in re-profiling funds, which we want to transfer to a foriegn account.The full amount to be transfered is ($14,700,000). I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this fund cannot be approved to a local Bank here in South Africa, and the funds are in US Dollars. The owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson from America, and he died since 2000 in an air crash along with his wife & Daughter on 31/01/2000 in an Alaska Airlines Flight 261 with other passengers on board.
You can confirm from this from http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
I am proposing 30% for you for your assistance while my colleagues and I will receive 60%, and 10% earmarked for purposes of expenses. Should you be interested in this business transaction, which i sincerely appreciate and hope that you will, kindly provid me with the below informtion:
(1) Your personal telephone number(2) fax number(3) Full Names(4) age(5) company, if any(6) Residential Address
We do not want these money to go into a government account as unclaimed bills, hence, some officials and I, want you to present yourself as the next of kin in relation with the deceased, so the funds can be remitted into your account.On receipt of your acceptance and the above informations., you will be communicated with the exact steps to take, to enable us conclude this transaction urgently and confidentialy. Please reply me on my confidential email on themba.lindani@gmail.com
Best RegardsMr. Themba Lindani
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