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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: =?gb2312?q?abou=20steit?= <maherabou5555@yahoo.com.cn>
Reply-To: maher_abou1965@123mail.cl
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 23:08:26 +0800 (CST)
Subject: From: Maher Labib Abou Steit
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From: Maher Labib Abou Steit
General Manager, UBE.
United Bank of Egypt.
106, Kasr El-Aini st,
Po box 85 Magles El-Shaab
Cairo center building
Cairo, Egypt
Telex: 20060/20061 ube un
Email:maher_abou1965@123mail.cl
Date:16th May, 2006
Dearest
Compliments of the season
I am the manager United Bank of Egypt (UBE). in my bank I discovered an
abandoned sum of $33.3musd (thirty three million three hundred thousand
U.S.dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer, by name, Mr. Bob Robert Chapman, African area director for
Wycliffe bible translators international, who died along with his
wife,Ruth Chapman, in January 2000 in a Kenyan plane crash in the coast
of Abidjan, Ivory coast.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release
it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin died along with
him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is
therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make business with you
and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation of the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and I don't want this money to go into federal government
account as unclaimed bill. The banking law and the guidelines here
stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after six years the
money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an
Egyptian cannot stand as next of kin for a foreigner. It is agreed that
a certain percentage of this money will be for you as my foreign
partner.
Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage agreed.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of the fund to you as
arranged. you must apply first to the bank as a relation or next of kin
of the deceased indicating your bank account number and location
wherein the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply I will send to you the text of the
application.
As soon as you receive this letter, you should contact me through my
SECURITY e-mailaddress,maher_abou1965@123mail.cl
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully
Maher Labib Abou Steit
General Manager, UBE.
Note: all transactions will be through email as calls are strictly
monitored down hear in the complex.
- abou steit
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