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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: Samuel Duke <smd11001@msn.com>
Reply-To: <samduke10003@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:05:33 +0000
Subject: Can you assist me?
Dear Friend,
This letter might come to you as a surprise as we have
not met before,but I believe that you would be
compelled to help me after going through the contents
of this letter. My name is Mr Samuel Richard Duke, a
divorce, I am a Zimbabwean. I am a farmer in Zimbabwe.
Basically, I was involved in Agricultural production,
until August (2003), when the government of Robert
Mugabe decided to seize all farm-land(s) owned by
whites in Zimbabwe (without compensation). He (Robert
Mugabe) did not stop at that he also went on to expel
all White farmers in Zimbabwe.
He implored the services of his war veterans to
undertake his seizure.The war veterans have been
accused (correctly) of being behind the violent
occupation of white-owned commercial farms in which an
estimated 70,000 farm workers have been displaced. At
least,over hundreds white farmers and black settlers
have been killed since the farm invasion began in
February 2000
Link{www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,536901,00.html}Although
we know that we are taking a great risk by staying
here in Zimbabwe. At the Moment, our phone lines are
bugged, and all our movements are being monitored by
Zimbabwean (Robert Mugabe's)secret Police.
Therefore email is the safest means of communication
for now. We have taken our case to the United Nations
and even with the threats of transactions and the
subsequent sanctions from the West against the
Zimbabwean authorities, Robert Mugabe still remains
adamant. He is insisting that our farm land (some of
which we bought with our money and most of which We
inherited from our fathers) belongs to the (his)
government of Zimbabwe. Since I could not keep the
money in Zimbabwe, I used the services of a Diplomatic
Courier Company to move this money (registered as
official documents) out of Zimbabwe to Abroad. At
present, my money totaling US$17,750,000(seventeen
million,seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The fund is in oversea and hopefully it would be paid
into an offshore account. Can you help me? Are you
trustworthy? Can you handle this money? Are you
capable of handling this money? If you can, please
contact me All you need to do is to claim this money
from the Courier Company. For your assistance, you
will be entitled to 20% of the total sum. You are also
obliged to help/advise on the proper and most
convenient way of investing this money in your
country, hopefully, You will consider this request and
respond positively.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Samuel Richard Duke
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