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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: "BENJAMIN TEFEYA" <rbnkhumalo@netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:59:46 +0300
Subject: FROM BENJAMIN TEFEYA; SIERRA LEONE. WEST AFRICA
Benjamin Tefeya
Rotterdam, Netherlands
+31 619 729 725,
Email: bentefeya01@aol.com
30th April,2007
Dear Sir,
A REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
Though this letter may come to you as a surprise, with due respect, trust
and humility, I use this medium to write this letter to you
irrespective of the fact that you do not know me, but please do consider
this letter as a request from a family in dare need of
assistance.
I am Mr. Benjamin Tefeya and my sister is Miss Ollian Tefeya, we are the
children of late Chief Bernard Tefeya from Sierra Leone.
I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance
to transfer our cash of Fifteen Million Dollars
(US$15,000.000.00) cash bond concealed and secured in Two treasure trunk
boxes which is now safely secured in the vault of a
Security brokerage Firm here in Netherlands. The money is declared as
family valuables by my late father as a matter of fact the
company does not know the content as money, although my father made them to
understand that the boxes belongs to his foreign
partner.
Source of the money:
My late father Chief Bernard Tefeya, a native of Mende District in the
Northern Province of Sierra Leone, was the General
Manager of Sierra Leone Diamond Mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown.
According to my father, this money was the income accrued
from Mining Cooperation’s over draft and minor sales. Before the peak of
the civil war between the rebel’s forces of
Major Paul Koroma and the combined forces of ECOMOG peacekeeping operation
that almost destroyed my country, following
the forceful removal from power of the then civilian elected President
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels.
My late father had already made arrangement for us, my mother, my little
sister and myself to be evacuated to Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire
with the CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT he made with the security firm in
Netherlands. Due to the war in Cote d'Ivoire that time, my
sister and i were evacuated to Rotterdam the Netherlands after the death of
my mother through the aid of U.N evacuation team
where we are currently seeking political asylum. During the war in my
country, and following the indiscriminate looting of Public and
Government properties by the rebel forces, the Sierra Leone mining coop.
was one of the targets looted and destroyed. My father
including other top Government functionaries were attacked and killed by
the rebels in November 2002 because of his relationship
with the civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.
As a result of my father's death and with the news of my uncle's
involvement in the air crash in January it dashed our hope of
survival. The untimely deaths caused my mother's heart failure and other
related complications of which she later died in the
hospital after we must have spent a lot of money on her early last year.
Now my 18 years old sister and I are in this strange
country . Without any relation, we are now like refugees and orphans. Our
only hope now is in
you to assist us. I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways.
1. To assist me claim this boxes from the security Firm as our beneficiary
2. To provide a bank account where this money can be transferred.
3. To make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf
in your country and you, as our Adviser/ Manager
For your assistance, I have agreed with my sister that 25% of the total
amount will be for your effort and another 15 % to cover all
the expenses that you may inure during the business transaction, Lastly, I
urge you to keep this transaction strictly confidential as
no one knows our where about.
Please as you show your willingness; feel free to call me on phone +31 619
729 725, or fax +31847559111 on the above number.
Also forward to us your full name, phone and fax numbers, via my private
email address as indicated (bentefeya01@aol.com). We are anxiously awaiting
your response.
Thanks. May God bless you as you assist us?
Mr. Benjamin Tefeya.
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