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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: "Morgan Aba." <morgan_aba08@yahoo.de> (may be fake)
Reply-To: morgan_aba@myway.com
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:29:24 -1200
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
Dear Friend,
I am Mr. Morgan Aba, Audit and Finance Officer, with Standard Securities & Investment Ltd, I am writing this letter to ask for your Support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. We discovered an abandoned sum of (USD10.5 Million) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Engineer. Atkinson, who died in the Ikeja Bomb blast of the 27th of January 2002 including his wife and two children.
Since his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and put claims for his money as his heir, for we cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies to claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking regulation. Unfortunately, neither their family members nor distant relatives have showed up to claim the said fund.
Upon this discovery, my colleagues and I, have agreed to make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the heir to the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained an account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks treasury as unclaimed fund.
For clarity, we have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus; 20% for you as foreign partner, 75% for me and the officials in my department and 5% for the settlement of all local and foreign expenses incurred during the course of this business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, my colleagues and I, will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 75 % we intend to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of recycling the fund. To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone & fax numbers, full names & address to enable the process of this transaction in your favor and to effect the necessary approvals before the transfer can be made.
Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature. For confirmation of this story please refer to these sites:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm
http://www.worldsocialist-cwi.org/index2.html?/eng/2002/02/02.html
I look forward to receiving your prompt response.
Regards,
Mr. Morgan Aba.
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