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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: BUSINESS ASSISTANCE <megadaba@zwallet.com>
Reply-To: meg43@myway.com
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:07:53 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
FROM THE DESK OF MRS.MARGARET ADABA
FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.
SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA.
DEAR Friend,
I am the manager of Telex and exchange at the foreign remittance department of South African Reserve Bank (SARB). I am writing following the impressive information about you through one of my friends who runs a consultancy firm in your country. He assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S $9.7M US dollars (NINE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who Was Murderd THREE YEARS ago.
Since we got information about the death of MR.RICHARD WOLF, we have been expecting his next of kin 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 and laws.All effort to get hold of his next of kin proved abortive, It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you to act as the next of kin to Mr Richard Wolf in other to release the money into your account for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after four years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and no body here can stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 50% would be for me. There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentages indicated.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
MRS MARGARET ADABA
Manager,
FORIEGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
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