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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: edo_oduma edo_oduma <edo_oduma@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 08:00:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: YOUR ATTENTION
Edo Oduma,
LOME TOGO
Dear friend
I know that this letter will come to you as a surprise, but I will like you to take it as one of the good things that come to us through God our saviour once in our life time.
My name is Mr. Edo Oduma, I am the Personal Assistant to the former Minister of trade and Industry. During the time my boss was the minister he used his good office to award contract to some foreign companies and intentionally inflated the contract amount to the sum of $75million, while the actual value of the contract was $50million,with the intention of collecting the contract balance of $25million.
Now that the contract has been concluded and the contractors had taken their $50million, my boss was unable to move the balance of $25milloin out of the country before his untimely retirement from office, hence the fund is now lying as an unclaimed fund with the ministry of finance. Without any body knowing about this, only my self and my boss the former minister who is now late (May his Gentle Soul Rest in Perfect Peace Amen.) as things stands now I want to seek your indulgence to move this out from my ministry and transfer it out to your company or personal account for safe keeping, sharing and investment with you, because as a government official we are not allowed to have foreign account in my country Togo or any other country in the world, hence I need your help here.
At the end of the transfer I will fly to meet with you in your country or any other place you may wish, for the sharing and disbursement, I will also like you to help me find good investment areas where I will invest my own part of the money in your country.
Please, if you are ok with this my request, I will like you to inform me as soon as possible to enable us start with the transfer. You will have to call me on my direct line, or email me immediately to speak with me to register your interest in this transaction.
If I did not receive any response from you after 2weeks of sending this mail to you, I will know that you are not willing to help, I will have no other alternative than to look for another person who will assist me, as this is my only hope in life and I will do every thing humanly possible to
achieve it .
Looking forward to establishing good business and family relationship between
our good self. May God Almighty Be with Us to achieve this our mutual goal.
Remain Bless
Yours truly
Edo Oduma
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