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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: "Miss Sharon Ideh" <qshpm@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: sharonideh2005@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:10:48 +0100
Subject: CORRESPONDENT WILL BE APPRECIATED WITH COOPERATION.
Dear friend,
I am Mr.Miss Sharon Idehthe only Daughter of late Chief John Ideh
from Sierra-Leone. I got your contact from the internet directory and need an assistance from you.
My sources of your contact gave me encourage and
confidence to write on you.
I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek for your
assistance to transfer our cash of (Thirty Nine Million United Stated
Dollars) (39,000,000.00) now in the custody of the Security Company
DIPLOMATIC SECURITY & VAULT COMPANY
here in Ghana to your private account pending our arrival to your country.
SOURCES OF THE FUND
My late father, chief John Ideh a native of Mende District in
the northern province of Sierra-Leone, was the general manager of
Sierra-Leone Mining Co-operation (S.L.M.C) Freetown. According to my father,
this money was the income accrued from mining co-operation over draft and
minor sales. Before the peace of the civil war between the rebel forces of
Major Paul Korormah and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping
operation that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful removal
from power of the civilian elected president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the
rebels. My father had already made arrangement for his family, my mother, my
little Brother Paul Ideh and myself to be evacuated to spain, with our persona effort
and the box containing the money. My father deposited the box in a private
security company here in spain for the safe custody until after the war when
he will join us. During the war in my country, and following the!
indiscriminate looking of the public and government properties by the rebels
forces, the Sierra-Leone mining coop. was one of the targets looted and
destroyed. My father including other top government functionaries were
attacked and killed by the rebels because of the relationship with the
civilian president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.
As a result of my father's death, our hope of survival. The untimly deaths
caused mother heart failure and other releated complications of which Now,
my 19 years old and myself are alone in this strange country
suffering without any care or help. Without any relation, we are now like
refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in you and the box deposited in a
Security Company.
To this effect, I humbly solicit your assistance in the following ways. To
assist me claim this box from Security Company as co-benficiary. To transfer
this money in your name to your country To make good arranagement for a
joint business investment on our behalf in your country and you, the
careteker. To secure a college for my little sister and myself in your
country to further our education. And to make arrangement for our travel
with you to your country after you have transferred this fund. Most
important, the security company official do not know the exact content of
the box because it was decleared as family valuables. The whole document
issued after deposit is in our family lawyer Barrister Kwame Koosom Appiah
Custody, For your assistance, I have concede 25 % of the money to your efforts assistance.
Please reply to my private email for urgent and early attention:sharonideh2005@yahoo.com.
Best Regards
Miss Sharon Ideh,
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