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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: "justin lorenzo" <julo2004@msn.com>
Reply-To: justin_lorenzo2006@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:29:21 +0000
Subject: CALVARY GREETINGS!
Dear Friend,
Greetings to you and Please permit me to introduce myself.
I am Mr.Justin Lorenzo, a Portuguese crude oil Merchant based in Sao
Tome and Principe.
I was so lucky to come in contact with your email address on the
internet,and that is why i am contacting you.
I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer which has defiled all
medical solutions and according to medical experts I only
have a few more months to live. As you read this you do not have to
feel sorry for me as it is a universal truth that we all must die
someday, the only problem with mine though being that I have
particularly not lived my life well in spite of my wealth and possessions
as I never really cared for anyone (not even myself) but my business.
Though I am very rich I was never generous, I was never caring about
people but only dedicated my time and resources on my business as that
was the only thing I cared about. But now I regret all this as I now know
that
there is more to life than just accumulating all the wealth in the
world, as I lay helplessly on my sick bed. If I was given a second chance to
live again I sure would live my life a different way from how I have
lived it owing to what has befallen me now.
As my last days alive are drawing closer and closer I
havealready willed out most of my properties and assets to my immediate
and extended family members as well as a few close friends.
I also want my soul to be at peace with God and for him to be
merciful on me and accept my soul and to this regard I have resolved to
give my remaining funds to charity organizations as I want this to stand as
one of the last deeds I indulge in on earth before I die. Though I have
already distributed money to some charity organizations, Now that my
health has deteriorated so badly I can no longer continue with this
myself and also I do not trust my immediate family members or close
friends on this, as I have once asked them to close one of my accounts and
distribute the funds therein to charity organizations in
Asia, South America, Eastern Europe and Africa, they greedily kept the money
to themselves.
Hence I am contacting you with this as I have lost
confidence in them because it is obvious they are not
contented with what I have left for them. The last of my funds which no
one knows of is a cash deposit of Fourteen million U.S Dollars
($14,000,000,00)
stashed in two trunk boxes and declared as Personal effects of high security
value
which I have with a finance/Security Company in Amsterdam-The Netherland.
All I am asking of you is to assist me in making the
collection of this deposit and dispatching the funds to any
charity of your choice after keeping 20% of the funds for yourself and
your family.10% of these funds should be to cover any expenses that might be
incurred in the process of making this claims. Please contact me as
soon as you get this email if you are capable and sincere to handle
this transaction on my behalf so I can forward you with all relevant
document and details necessary for the claims and the name of the security
firm where the funds are deposited. God bless you as I await words from you.
Please inform me as soon as possible via my email address:
justin_lorenzo@sify.com or
justilor2004@yahoo.co.in, even if you are not interested
so i can proceed to seek for someone else to carry out this on
my behalf.
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.
Mr. Justin Lorenzo
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