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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: "Ricola Jordi" <ricola_j1@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ricola_j1@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:22:10 -0700
Subject: Please,kindly reply this mail.
I will like to introduce myself to you in the first place.
I am 26 years old male, Namibia national but I am presently in Ghana. I am the errand boy of Mr. Gustav Struck Stobele, he is German national, he is gold merchant and a farmer in Zimbabwe.
Please I need you to help me to stand as the foreign partner of my boss to claim and invest an amount of money deposited with a company in Ghana.
For your assistance you will be having 35% shares of the shopping mall that I will establish in your country.
Please do not be surprise that you do not know me before and that I am seeking for your assistance, May be you might have receive several mails from Africa concerning help, regarding investment or financial issue, but do not let it border you, truly Africa continent is poor and the continent is economically and politically unstable, the leaders are corrupt, they embezzle public fund and bank it in the western countries, there is great tension in the continent because of mismanagement of public fund and this is what leads to several wars in the continent. Just imagine what is happening in Sudan today, this is why this days so many people in Africa are looking for peaceful country to invest their wealth. During the civil war in various countries in the continent, so many rebel leaders and government leaders deposited their assets in Ghana and some other stable countries in the continent but these countries are not also safe, anything can happen anytime !
like the sudden break out of civil war in Cote de Voire, My luggages was seize by rebel in Cote De Voire when I was coming to Ghana. I know you do not know me before but with the help of the Internet someone can easily make contact with people outside his/her own country, these days people Even get married through the help of the Internet, likewise so many other affairs., people also share business idea and carry out business transaction, like wise there so many other opportunities through the internet.
The money I am talking about was deposited as an antiques with a forwarding and clearing company in Ghana, the company do not know that the content inside the boxes is money.
My boss intended to ship the boxes to his foreign partner in Amsterdam when he was unfortunately arrested for drug offense, but his arrest was a set up.
Please do not feel that I want to involve you into money laundering or drug money transaction, the money is legit, my boss is a gold merchant, he also export cocoa to different part of the world.
According to the shipment registration form, the boxes are suppose to be deliver to the foreign partner in Netherlands and on the form I am the next of kin. I cannot claim the boxes from the company without the foreign partner.
So, please I want you to stand as the foreign partner and also to help me claim the boxes from the company. There is security code that the foreign partner suppose to give to the company, to show that he/she is the legit person to claim and receive the boxes in Netherlands.
Please I am begging you to kindly and willingly help me and if you are willing to help me, then I will give you the security code and you will now mail or call the company to let them know that you are the foreign partner of my boss and that you want the boxes to be deliver to you.
Please I will want you to give me your private cell phone number, so that I can be reaching you easily. My email addresses are ricola_j1@hotmail.com <http://us.f353.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ricola_j1@hotmail.com> or ricola_j1@yahoo.com <http://us.f353.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ricola_j1@yahoo.com> , I will want you to also reply me with email address, I will be waiting for your response.
Please i will want you to come down to Ghana, to make things more easier so that the two of us will go to the company to claim the fund and bank it here and later transfer it your country, i am saying this for security reason.
Please pardon me for any words that might offend you in this mail, i have to show respect to my elders, even to those that i am older than. Manner of approach matters alot in this world , some time the way i approach you on sentitive issue like this might offend you , especially when i said my boss was arrested for drug offense and i am telling you to come and help me, i do not how you will feel but i am appealing to you to kindly help me.
Best regard,
Ricola Jordi.
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