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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: "Mrs Shirley Yema Gbujama" <mrsgbujama@msn.com>
Reply-To: mrs_gbujama@katamail.com
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:50:41 +0000
Subject: PLEASE DO ASSIST MY CHILDREN
Mrs. Shirley Yema Gbujama
Minister of Social Welfare,
Gender and Children Affairs
Sierra Leone
Greetings to you,
With warm heart I offer my friendship, and greetings,and I hope this
mail meets you in good time. However strange or surprising this contact
might seem to you as we have not met personally or had any dealings in
the past, I humbly ask that you take due consideration of its
importance and the immense benefit it will be to you.
After careful consideration with my children, we resolved to contact
you for your most needed assistance in this manner. I duly apologize
for infringing on your privacy, if this contact is not acceptable to
you, as I make this proposal to you as a person of integrity.First and
foremost I wish to introduce myself properly to you. My name is Mrs.
Shirley Yema Gbujama , mother of three and the Minister of Social
Welfare, Gender and Children Affairs and other ministeries for Eight
years running.
You may view my profile on the following link;
http://www.statehouse-sl.org/sygbujama.html
I will now give you a general overview of the situation. When I was
sworn in as Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children Affairs in
1996, with my influence, my husband Mr. Thomas Gbujama, a very
successful businessman was awarded several contracts in my ministry and
had direct dealings with foreign investors in this field. Due to my
political status, Iwas not involved in my husband's business which was
very vast and successful. My beloved husband died whilst on an official
trip to One of his project sites,where they were attacked by rebels and
killed and their corpse were never found, When my husband died, I was
contacted as next of kin by a private security firm in Europe to come
forth with the Certificate of Deposit and claim a deposit my husband
has in their Firm in his name as it is customary to the laws of the
Country where this Security Firm is located that any Deposit that is
left unclaimed after 7 years will revert to the National treasury of
the holding Country's account as such i contacted you to help me
retrieve and invest this funds in your Country for my Children as it is
against the Constitution of my Country for any Government serving
Minister or Public office holder to have a foreign Account or funds
outside this Country so i ask that you help me claim and invest this
funds for my Childrens furure.
The deposit which is totalling $24,500,000 which was generated from
cash payments from his business associates in the diamond trade from
Antwerp, Belgium. though I knew my late husband was in the diamond
business, I did not have the knowledge that he moved funds in cash and
with my present position as a Minister in this Present Government it
will cause a lot of problem for me and my family cause if the
Government should know of this cash they might think that my late
husband has a hand in the Blood Diamonds during the civil war in my
Country ,so I had to contact the Security company in Europe with the
assistance of my late husbands friend that works with one of our
Embassy telling them that this funds belong to my late husbands partner
and that we have been trying to locate him for quite sometime now,as
such i have contacted you to act as a trustee to help me clear this
Deposit from the Finance and Security Company in Europe,and we have
decided to have this funds invested immediately in commercial and
residentialproperties abroad as well as profitable ventures, as any
member of my family cannot hold such a huge amount in our name due to
my political status, hence we sincerely propose to you to render us
your most needed assistance in this regard. If you agree to render us
your assistance, your role in this project will be to act on my behalf
as a trustee to receive the deposit(money) from the Security firm.
Though I believe this transaction should be based on mutuality, my
family's interest will be protected by family friend, who helped us
make contact with this Security Firm,I have informed him that I am
locating one of my husband's business associates (you) to handle the
funds and invest on our behalf, as he might be opposed to our decision
if he found out that I barely know you.
For your reliable assistance, we are offering you 15%($3,675,000) of
the funds. I thank you in advance as we anticipate your assistance in
enabling us achieve this goal.
On hearing from you, I will forward to you all the necessary documents
that will assist you in Clearing this Deposite boxes.
As you may understand,due to my sensitive position in the present
government,it is not safe to communicate with me via phone or fax. this
is why I have communicated with you with my private email address, and
I like us to keep it this way, for the safety of this transaction.
Please contact me on my private email address;
syg1940@yahoo.it
whether or not you are interested in assisting us,this will enable us
make alternative plans, in the event of non-interest on your part.
With warm regards,
Mrs. Shirley Yema Gbujama
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