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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: "David Bryan" <d_bryan_05@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: davbnllis56@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:22:13 -0500
Subject: URGENT INFORMATION.
Dear Sir/Madam
I am Mr. David Bryan Eugene , the accounts officer to Late Mr. Roy J. Smith,a national of your country who was an Oil Contractor/Merchant with our Government,Who died in April 2004 in a ghastly motor accident, herein after shall be referred to as my client. I am also working with Mr.Greg Williams senior manager with the Standard trust Bank Nigeria Plc.
The main purpose of writing you this mail is for you to assist us in repatriating the assets andcapital of our deceased customer valued at $15,500,000.00 (Fifteen million Five hundred thousand Dollars). deposited in the Standard Trust Bank Nigeria Plc. According to the documents I have and also the ones presented by Mr. Greg Williams (the bank manager)our late Customer had his only daughter as his next of kin.
This daughter of his died with him alongside his wife in the ghastly motor accident. The bank has searched for his Relatives for more than 2 years without any success. After two years and no trace of the relative(according to the Bank policy on international lodgments) the money will be confiscated by the government in power. The senior manager has Approached me in confidence and mandated me to locate Someone abroad whom we can handle this with, who can help us receive this money abroad for us to share. Our Late Customer Mr.Roy J.Smith had a fixed time deposit with our bank, which had matured and remains unclaimed till now.
All I require from you is your honest co-operation and sincerity to present you to our bank as the next of kin to the deceased to enable us see this transaction through. On receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio.Please I urge you to treat this with utmost sense of dispatch as we have only 2 weeks to clear this deposit.
Thank you in anticipation of your kind response to my request. You can as well indicate if you wont assist because Mr.Greg is a highly placed person and I cannot afford to betray this confidence he reposed in me.
As soon as I hear from you I shall introduce you to the bank for the claims. Please feel free and send your response to my private email below
Regards,
Mr. David Bryan E.
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