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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: SOUL SPIRIT <jr_o26@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <juderobert@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:52:08 +0200
Subject: Dear Respectful
Dear Respectful,
As you receive this unsolicited mail and we are very sorry to had infringe into your privacy without permission but we are quite confidence in you going by your profile makeup possessing qualities that somewhat convince us you are right fellow to confide this to you.
For further, see these sites, www.bbc.co.uk /French or www.bbcnews.com and get details of the current political crisis here in Ivory Coast. We need your mutual assistance to move our money to your Country for investment. To be very honest and sincere with you, since the sudden death of our late father, we have contacted two people from Denmark and Greece to assist us in this very matter, but due the fraudulent activates going on in the world through the internet today and otherwise, all the people we have contacted felt we are not for real.
That is why we are writing you this mail with due sense of humanity and responsibility, and with the awareness that you will give it a sympathetic and mutual consideration. The internet fraudulent activities at the moment may make you to doubt our proposal but we want you to know that we are for real.
See the sites bellow to confirm my mail.
(1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/930254.stm
(2) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/africa/2268110.stm
(3) http://www.liberiaorbit.org/lonewsgueiout.htm
(4) http://www.afrol.com/News2002/civ027_guei_killed.htm
(5) http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/ivorycoast/cotdiv0801.htm
we more or less an orphan so we would want you to stand as guardian to safely get the money transferred and then make arrangement for us to come over. The reason we need your help is because of the agreement our father had with the bank which is that the money should be transferred to a foreign partner account, so i am not able to withdraw any money from the account until it has been transferred to you.
Please we will want you to understand our situation better, for now to say it in the short form it has been a very bitter tale, from the death of our father to the maltreatment we have been receiving from my relatives who have been envious of our parents because they were not well-to-do as our father was, for that reason they are hostile towards us.
it has been very terrible since then we have been facing allot of difficulties even sustenance to have our daily meal is a tale not to be remembered. This is the reason we plead for your assistance to ensure that the money is transferred safely then we come over to meet you ending all these our pains we are passing through at the moment.
We entrusting our only hope left into your care, the rest of our parent’s properties have been taken by our wicked uncle who is even seeking to kill us. Before I give you details of my father's account and the bank where the money is deposited I will want to know more about you if you do not mind. Kindly tell me what you do for a living, about your family, if your are married how many children do you have? This is just to know you better. My name is Jude Robert GUEI I am undergraduate student an orphan of 22yrs old and my younger sister Graces is 19yrs old we from Ivory Coast, in West Africa, the amount our late father deposited is sum of US$ 7.000 000.00 SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS in a bank here before he dead in Abidjan the capital state of Ivory Coast.
All we will want you to do is stand in as the partner and friend of our late father and instruct the bank to transfer the money into your account. I have the whole information of the deposit account of my father with me. We have agreed and willingly if you could assist us to offer you 15% of the total fund, 5% will be mapped out for off setting bank Charges, Disbursement of bills and other incidental expenses while 80% goes to me and my younger sister.
Please try and understand our situation here life has not been very easy for us here since the death of our father because am an orphan and you will understand how difficult it is for us Please let us know if the amount we have promised giving is ok with you because we will want to satisfy you so there will be no reason for you to disappoint us by giving someone else the information to our late father then the person will take the money leaving us without any hope for a better future. so please tell us if it is ok with you or not then we will know what to do.
Please I will be waiting to hear from you upon receipt of this my mail.
Thank you
Jude Robert GUEI
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