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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: michael kuffuor <kuffuormichael@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:57:15 +0100 (BST)
Subject: SEEKING FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE
Attn:Sir.
My name is,Mr Michael Kuffuor.I am an accountant in the Bill and Exchange of the Foreign Remittance Department in INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK ACCRA GHANA.I believed that you shall posess the capability and reliability to champion this opportunity with me.In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of $30.5 million US dollars in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died in october,1999 in a plane crash.Since we got the ugly information
about his death, we have been expecting his next of Kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody applies for it as next of Kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking and financial policies but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin (the wife) died along side with him in the accident leaving no body behind to claim the money. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and a partner in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and hope release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don,t want this money to go into the Bank treassury as unclaimed bills.The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occa!
sioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an indigene cannot stand as next of kin to the deceased family. We agreed that 25% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during this transaction and 70 % would be for me and my colleagues. Thereafter, I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.To enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged above, you must apply first to the Bank as the relation or next of kin to the deceased indicating your private telephone and fax numbers for easy and effective communication and location where the money will be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have b!
een made
for the transfer.You should contact me on my E-MAIL .as soon as you receive this letter.I decided to contact you as we have products of interest in your part of the world where we can invest our own percentage to avoid peoples awareness as we are civil servants.With your acceptance and cooperation, we can conclude this operation within 14 working days.Please keep this very confidential.
Thanks and best regrds.
Mr Michael Kuffuor.
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