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  • victorguei2000@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "victor guei" <victor-guei@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:55:59 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME

Dear,

Due to my careful search for an honest, reliable and sincere business
partner, i got your contact from the internet and i ask if you can be
trusted not to break an agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my
mind
to contact you and to offer you this proposal of mine of which my whole
life
depends on.
am Victor Guei, the brother of the late PRESIDENT ROBERT GUEI from
Abidjan, the Republic of Cote d`ivoire who was assassinated during the
last
political problem in cote D`Ivoire in the year 2002. my elder brother
cash($ 8.1
million us dollars cash) for investment . I thought that the political
problem here will stop so that we can invest the fund here but because of
the current crisis again we have decided to move the fund out of this
country for investment. For further details, you can see www.bbcnews.com
and
get details of the current political crisis here in Abidjan.
I need your mutual assistance to move my brother's asset to your Country
for investment. To be very honest and sincere with you, since the sudden
death of my late borther I have contacted two people from Denmark and
Greece
to assist me in this very matter, but due the fraudulent activites going
on
in the world and otherwise, all the people I contacted felt I am not for
real. that is why I am writing you this mail with due sense of humanity
and
responsibility, and with the awareness that you will give it a sympathetic
and mutual consideration.
We will need your advice on areas of investment when finally the money
get
to your end. The total money deposited in my name in a Finance firm in
cote
d ivore by late brother which we want to move out right now is US$8.1
million
Please get back to me to enable us work out modes of shippment or transfer
of the fund to you directly as we may agree.Contact me by E-mail
victorguei2000@yahoo.com
Thanks and bye for now.
Yours truly,
Mr. Victor Guei



See the sites bellow to confirm my mail.
1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/930254.stm> (2)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/africa/2268110.stm
(3) http://www.liberiaorbit.org/lonewsgueiout.htm
(4) http://www.afrol.com/News2002/civ027_guei_killed.htm
(5) http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/ivorycoast/cotdiv0801.htm

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