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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: suliman muhammed <suli_a03@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:08:10 +0100 (BST)
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP
Please Sir,
I write to solicit your assistance for a transaction of mutual benefit;believing that you will treat it with utmost confidence. I implore you to excuse me of any embarrassment this might cause you, as we have not met before.
I am suliman muhammed by name, first son of late Dr. wahabu muhammed, chairman Of the Sierra-Leone National Diamond Mining Corporation. I send you this mail from Lome , capital of Togo where l currently reside after leaving my country due to an event that took place last year which led to the arrest and detention of my father and six other men after a face off with the Sierra-Leone government on allegation of subversive activities and treasonable offences which was nothing but a mere political persecution.
After five months in detention, my father was announced dead by the government special press release. Though l do not know to what extent you are familiar with the events and crisis in Sierra-Leone. However, during the disturbance and prior to my father's death, my father gave me a deposit certificate for a secret deposit he made in a Security Company in Togo. My father had deposited a trunk box containing US$16,800,000.00 (Sixteen Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in the Security Company in Togo for safe keeping. He informed me that he deposited the trunk box as a bonded shipment and declared to contain family treasures. He further said that the Security Company do not know the true content of the trunk box.
My father told me that in the event that he is killed, l should deligently seek the assistant of a white foreign partner who would help me secure the release of the trunk box, because on the day he made the deposit, he told them that the trunk box would remain their until the arrival of his foreign partner whome also he declared as the beneficiary. He did not indicate any name, all he wrote on the beneficiary colum of the deposit document, was “Foreign Pertner”.
It is in view of this, that l have decided to contact you for assistant. I want you to help me secure the release of the trunk box as my late father’s presumed foreign partner. I am willing to go into investment partnership with you in your country, so that we can
have a long lasting business relationship. For assisting me, l would give you 30% of the funds.
I wait to hear from you.
SULIMAN MUHAMMED
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