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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: "Joseph Dotun" <dotunjoseph@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 14:18:06 +0000
Subject: Await your reply
Dear
With compliments and respect,I beg your pardon for this unsolicited message,
it was out of Curiosity that evolved this contact with you. I am
Barrister Dotun Joseph, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to
Sir Richard Woodard, a national of your country,who until his death was an
crude Oil Merchant and a civil contractor with the Federal Government of
Nigeria.
On Sunday, 27th of January 2002, my client, his wife {Lady Anna and their
three children{Elizbeth,Dexter and James} were involved in terrible bomb
blast that took live of innocent souls and unfortunately over 1000 people
lost their lives and my client and his family were part of this people that
lost their lives.The web page below confirms the information,viz:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm
Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my client's
extended relatives to no avail.After these several unsuccessful attempts, I
decided to track his last name over the Internet to locate any member of
his family or any close name to his to no avail also as he did not state any
next of kin to his estate before the unfortunate incident.
I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my
client before they get liquidated or declared Unserviceable by the bank
where this huge deposits were lodged, particularly (UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA
PLC,LAGOS NIGERIA ) where he operated an account valued precisely at 9.20
million USD dollar. The bank has issued me a Last notice to provide the
next of kin of my client or have the account liquidated within the next
twenty one official working days.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a national of same
country to stand in as the next of kin ,so that the fruits of this old man's
labour will not get into the hands of some group of officials who will get
rid of the money and share it for their own selfish interest and
greed.Since I have not been successful in locating the relatives for over 3
years now, I seek your prompt consent to present you as the next of kin of
the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at 9.20 million
USD, can be paid to you as his next of kin then we can share the money
according to an agreed ratio of 50/50.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate & lawful
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Looking forward to your swift reply.
Yours sincerely,
Dotun Joseph
Reply to dotunjoseph@msn.com
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