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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: "mike benson" <mikebenson11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mikebenson@web-mail.com.ar
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:37:48 +0000
Subject: URGENT
Mr.Mike Benson
Lagos-Nigeria.
Reply to: mikebenson1@computermail.net
ATTN: Sir /Madam
Dear Friend,
I know this will come to you as a surprise but never mind, I got your
contact in my search for a reputable and trust worthy person/Company,
who can stand confidently with me in this successful business
arrangement. Before I proceed, I will like to introduce my humble self
to you.
I am the Auditor General of a Government Accredited Oil Company here
in Nigeria. Certainly, the prompting of this letter to you is anchored
on my strong desire to solicit your sincere understanding and
co-operation in this Transaction that would certainly boost the
financial stand of both parties involved when completed. As a matter of
fact, we want to transfer to overseas (US$ 152,000.000.00 USD) one
hundred and Fifty two million United States Dollars) from the Oil
company's operating Bank account here in Africa, I want you to quietly
look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to
provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank A/C
Immediately to receive this money, even an empty account can serve to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the
end of this important transaction, trusting in you and believing in God
that you will Never let me down either now or in the near future.
In all honesty, during the course of our auditing I discovered a
floating fund of the above mentioned amount in account opened with the
bank in 1990 and since then, nobody has operated on this account again,
after going through Some old files in the records I discovered that the
money in the account was mapped out for the refurbishment of the Oil
Company's Machineries.
Meanwhile, Mr. Magnus Leon, the President of the
Oil Company was the only signatory to The account, but unfortunately he
died after a brief illness in 1993. And no other person knows about
this account or any thing concerning it, and the account has no other
beneficiary. And my investigation proved to me that Mr. Magnus Leon,
until his death had wanted to siphoned that money into his personal
account in New York hence he did not disclose the operating devises of
the account to the Board of Trustees.
I am only contacting you in this regard, based on the fact that you are
a foreigner because, this money can only be approved to any foreigner
who can present all documents that will prove that he/she is the Next
of Kin/Beneficiary to the account base on the fact that Mr. Magnus Leon
the owner of this account is a foreigner, and the money can only be
approved into a foreign bank account.
Therefore, if you are capable of handling this transaction with me,
lets make the necessary arrangement for the hitch-free transfer of this
money to any safe bank account that you may nominate, on a share
percentage bases. However, we shall sign a binding agreement, to bind
us together as partners in this regard.
I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let
me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I
am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently and indicate
your sincere interest, so that I can inform you on the modalities
already mapped out for the hitch-free transfer of the money out of
Africa here.
I will require your direct phone and fax number for easy contacting you
I need your full co-operation to make this work adequately. Upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and
willing to meet up With the instructions of the top bank official that
is deeply involved with me in this business, I shall commence actions
immediately to process the payment of the money in your favor as the
beneficiary.
With my influence and the position of the bank official we can transfer
this money to any reliable foreign bank account, which you can provide.
I am looking forward in anticipation to hearing from you soon as
possible.
Yours truly,
Mr. Mike Benson
PLEASE SEND YOU REPLY TO MY CONFIDENTIAL EMAIL ADDRESS ONLY:
mikebenson1@computermail.net
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