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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: "JOHN MANSON" <john_manson8@msn.com>
Reply-To: joh_mansha@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:43:33 +0000
Subject: urgent
From: John Mensha
Dear, Sir,
My name is John Mensha, I am 24 years old and a student from Cotonou,
Capital State of Republic of Benin located in Western Africa. Please I
would like you to assist me as urgent as you can before they kill me. My
father is a wealthy Gold Mining merchant. Trouble began early last year when
my father's associates began suspecting that my father is not giving proper
accounts of all the tons of Gold being cultivated from the rural area in
some villages in our town .This mistrust deepens between May & June, 2005
when they discovered a very big some of money my father deposited in a
Security Company Vaults in Accra Ghana our neighboring country.
As a result of this discovery that my Father deposited a large sum of
money in United State dollars at the Security Company’s vaults in Accra
Ghana, envy ness started and because of the money his associates poisoned my
father. At his hospital bed, he revealed to me the reasons of his
sickness. He then directed me where to get the documents of the said
deposit, that he made me the next of kin being the only Son .He advise me
that if he dies , that I should not stay in the country because his
associates will equally kill me hence my mother died five years ago of
breast cancer. He directed me if he dies that I should look for a foreign
partner who will help me to retrieve the money from the Security Company
Vaults and move it to his or her country for sake keeping pending when
suitable for investment .
However, My father finally died on the 5th of October 2005 and since
then I was out of school and went into hiding because of my father's
associates. All the relevant documents of the US$10.5M (Ten million five
hundred thousand dollars) that was deposited in the Security company vaults,
which my late father registered as classified Documents and Bond are with me
now, which I can send to you. If you agree to assistance in this regards
by accepting to help me retrieve the money from the Security company’s
vaults and deposit into your account in your country pending when due for
investment. I would be highly appreciated and will accept to offer you 30%
of the total sum US$10.5M.
Here I attached the picture of the fund as it was packaged by my laye
father before he move the fund to the security company for depsoit. He asked
that I should send this picture as proof of the said fund.
Please act fast to my aid before they kill me.
I'm waiting for your anticipated cooperation
Thanking you in advance
John Mensha
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