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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: "Francis Duke" <francisduke@msn.com>
Reply-To: francisduke2112@yahoo.co.in
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:40:26 +0000
Subject: Assistance.
>From The Desk Of : Francis Duke
Accountant Union Bank Nigeria Plc
Lagos-Nigeria.
Email:( franciswilliams2112@yahoo.co.in )
I am Mr Francis Duke,An Accountant with Union Bank Nigeria Plc. I am writing
following an oppurtunity in my Department that will be of imense benefit to
both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $6.5million Dollars
(Six million five hundred thousand Dollars) in an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who
unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261
which crashed on January 31st, 2000, including his wife and only daughter.
You shall read more about the crash on the website:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin or relatves to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of
this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I
and two other officials in this department now decided to make business
with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of
the funds for safe keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and we don’t want this money to go back into Government
treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained
after five years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as
unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while
the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country for
the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this
money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our
watchword in this transaction.
If this proposal satisfies you, please contact me through my personal Email
(francisduke2112@yahoo.co.in), with the following important information.Your
Personal Phone / Fax Numbers for easy communication and Bank Account
details.
Best regards
MR FRANCIS DUKE
Accountant UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC.
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