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Fraud email example:

From: "Rev. Dave McCollins" <mcdave027@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <rev.mccollins@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 06:48:40 -0400
Subject: ESTATE ACQUISITION


Hello Dear, I am Dave McCollins, a British, a spiritual counsellor with MEN OF FAITH INT. and Pro-Director/British representative of the Rwanda Rehabilitation Project. Our organisation (the Rwanda Rehabilitation Project) is an international non-governmental charity group established for the resuscitation of the affected Rwanda citizens after the world deadliest genocide that took place in the country in 1994. We have a client who was the former Director of environmental matters in the defunct Government of assasined President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda . Our client was unjustly removed from office by succeeding President Bizimungu for being a Tutsi origin; She was detained and brutalised for her historical origin. You can visit this website:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1288230.stmhttp://www2.unog.ch/news2/documents/newsen/sg04003e.htmhttp://www.un.org/av/photo/unhq/projectrwanda040704.htm for further details. Our client (Ms Mebezu Osimatoye) is presently in United Kingdom and wants to acquire Estates or landed properties in your country. Considering her very strategic and influential position, she would want the transaction to be as strictly confidential as possible. She further wants her identity to remain undisclosed at least for now, till the completion of the transaction to avoid traces by the present Government of President Paul Kagame that laid embargo on fund transfer to/from Rwanda more especially when it has to do with Tutsi origins; Hence her desire to have an overseas agent. I am therefore making enquiries on her behalf if you would agree to act as her oversea agent in order to actualize this dream. The deal, in brief, is that the funds with which she intend to carry out her proposed investments in your country is invested in the oil rich Niger-Delta region of West Africa; she needs your assistance to transfer the invested funds to your country in a convenient bank account that will be provided by you before she can put the funds into use in your country. Should you be interested to help, feel free to contact me with your private telephone numbers for discussion of this transaction.Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.Sincerely,Rev. Dave McCollinsPro-Director, Rwanda Rehabilitation Project.(www.rwandaproject.org)
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