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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: "ZENITH BANK PLC" <info.zenithbank@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:06:19 +0100
Subject: TOP SECRET
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it with seriousness. This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners.
My name is Mr. ABDULAHI PHILIP the brand Manager of ZENITH BANK PLC here in Lagos - Nigeria.
THE PROPOSAL: A foreigner (German) Late Mr. ANDREAS SCHRANNER an oil merchant with the Federal Government of Nigeria, who died in plane crash years ago in CONCORDE AIRLINE [Flight AF4590] which crashed on 25TH JULY, 2000 was a customer to ZENITH BANK NIGERIA PLC. Lagos and had a closing balance of US$28.6M (Twenty Eight Million, six Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) as at the end of January 2000.
To know more about the Plane Crash I will like you to visit this website which I got during my investigation: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>
The Bank now expects a next of kin as a beneficiary and valuable efforts have been made to get in touch with any of the ANDREAS' family or relatives but to no success. It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of the Late Mr. ANDREAS SCHRANNER next of kin (which we later found out that his suppose next of kin been his daughter was among them in the plane) that the Management under the influence of our Chairman and members of the Board of Directors made arrangement for the fund to be released "unclaimed" and subsequently be daunted to Federal Government of Nigerian account after six months from date, that means the people in power will divert the money in their own personal account as soon as the money reach there.
In order to avert this negative development, one of my trusted colleague and I now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to Mr. ANDREAS SCHRANNER so that the fund will be released and remitted to your account. All documents and proof relating to the fund will be carefully worked out and the necessary modalities famished to you on your acceptance of our mutual business relationship. We have secured from the PROBATE an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries and more so we are assuring you that this deal is 100% risk free.
Reply through our e-mail address before my phone and fax number will given to you for further details.
Best Regards
ABDULAHI PHILIP
General Manger
Zenith Bank Nigeria Plc.
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