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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: "james kone" <mattojameschamber@msn.com>
Reply-To: mail_jameschamber@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:18:22 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY
james kone & CO
Legal Practitioner, Solicitors & Notaries,
Property & Civil Law
#182 NNAMDI AZIKIWE STREET
VICTORIA ISLAND
LAGOS, NIGERIA.
Dear,
With compliments and respect please I beg your pardon for this unsolicited
nature, it was out of
desperation and Curiosity that made me to contact you, to introduce myself,
I am Barrister james kone, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to
Sir Rodney Ahmed, a national of your resident country , who used to work
with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) here in Nigeria, is
referred to as my trusted client. On Sunday, 27th of January 2002, my
client, his wife {Lady Anna and their three children{Elizbeth,Dexter and
James} were involved in terrible bomb blast that took live of innocent souls
and unfortunately over 1000, people lost their lives and my client and his
family were part of this people that lost their lives. In view of this
please view the web page below
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm
Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
client's extended
relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet,
to locate any member of his family or any close name to his, hence I
contacted you. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money and
property left behind by my client before they get liquidated or declared
Unserviceable
by the security company where this huge deposits were lodged, particularly
the
security/financial company in Cotonou-Republic of Benin where the deceased
had his account valued precisely to be Fifteen million eight hundred
thousand United State Dollars The sercurity company has issued me a notice
to provide the next of kin or have the account liquidated within the next
twenty one official working days. Consequently, my proposal is that I will
like you as
a national of same country to stand in as the next of kin, so that the
fruits of this old man's labour will not get into the hands of some group of
corrupt government officials who will get rid of the money and share it for
their own selfish interest and greed. Since I have been unsuccessful in
locating the relatives for over 2 years now, I seek your prompt consent to
present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are from the same
country so that
the proceeds of this account valued at Fifteen million eight hundred
thousand United State Dollars can be paid to you and then you and I can
share the money according to any agreed ratio. All I require is your honest
co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this
will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law.
Looking forward to your swift reply.
Truly yours,
james kone..
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