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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: "THOMAS LAWSON" <thoma_lawson975@msn.com>
Reply-To: thomas.lawson971@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:51:01 +0000
Subject: PROMPT RESPONSE NEEDED.
Dear friend,
As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me because I believe
everyone will die someday. My name is Thomas Lawson, a business merchant in
Dubai, in the U.A.E. I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer which was
discovered very late, due to my laxity in caring for my health. It has
defiled all forms of medicine, and right now I have only about a few months
to live, according to medical experts. I have not particularly lived my life
so well, as I never really cared for anyone not even myself but my business.
I have a huge funds of US$24million deposited in form of my personal
valuables in a consignment with a security & finance company. I will want
you to help me collect this deposit and dispatch it to charity organizations
as stated below. Recently, my Doctor told me that I have a limited or
numbered days on earth due to the cancerous problems I am suffering from.
Though what bothers me
most is the stroke that I have in addition to the cancer. With this hard
reality that has befallen me, I have decided to donate this fund to a
non-governmental, or a non religious, and or a non profit organization or
better still an individual, that will utilize this money the way I am going
to
instruct here in. I will prefer an individual, that will use this gift which
comes from me to fund the upkeep of animal shelter homes, destitute, the
down-trodden, physically challenged children, and persons who prove to be
genuinely handicapped financially.
It is often said that blessed is the hand that gives. I took this
decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this money and my
relatives are bourgeois and I once asked members of my family to close one
of my accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity
organizations in Bulgaria and Pakistan, they refused and kept the money. I
do not want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner,
hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid of death
since I know where I am going. I do not need any telephone communication in
this regard due to my deteriorating health and because of the presence of my
relatives around me. I
do not want them to know about this development. With God all things
are possible.
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the
security & finance company in Europe. I will also send you the documentation
of the consignment that will empower you as the original beneficiary of this
consignment. My happiness is that I lived a life worthy of emulation. Please
always be
prayerful all through your life. Any delay in your reply will give me
room in sourcing for an individual for this same purpose.
I have set aside 10% for you for your time and patience.
Looking forward to your response.
Best wishes,
Thomas Lawson.
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