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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: "Barr.Jose Agu" <barrjoseagu5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: barristerjoseagu1@walla.com
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:32:40 +0000
Subject: very urgent
ATTN :Sir/Madam
It is obvious that this proposal will come to you as a
suprise.
This is because we have not met before but i am inspired to sending you
this
email by the huge fund transfer opportunity that will be of mutual
benefit
to the two of us.
However, I am JOSE AGU personal Attorney to the late Engr.Steve
Moore a
national of Isle of Man in UK, who used to work with
Shell Petroleum Development Company(SPDC) in Nigeria.
On the 21st of April 1996,my client,his wife And their three children
were
involved in a car accident along
Sagamu/Lagos Express Road.
Unfortunately they all lost
their lives in the event of the accident, Since then I have made
several
enquiries to several Embassies to
locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to
tracehisrelatives
over the Internet to locate any member of his family but of no avail,
hence
I contacted you.
I contacted you to assist in repartrating the money
and property left behind by my client,I can easily convince the bank
with my
legal practice that you are
the only surviving relation of my client. Otherwise the Estate he left
behind will be confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were
lodged.Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued
at
about $27million U.S
dollars(twenty seven million U.S.America
dollars).
Conseqently,The bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or
have
the account confiscated within
the next ten official working days.
since i have been unsuccesfull in locating the the relatives for over
several years now.I seek your consent to present you
as the next of kin of the deceased,so that the proceeds of this account
valued at $27million U.Sdollarscan be paid to your account and then you
and
me can share the money. 55%to
me and 40% to you,while 5% should be for expenses or tax as your
government
may require.
I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any
claim
we may make. All I require is
your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement
that
will protect you from any
breach of the law.Please get in touch with me by my email to enable
usdiscuss further.
please get back to me from this email
barristerjoseagu1@walla.com
Yours Faithfully,
Barrister JOSE AGU
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