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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: "abraham abbas" <abrahamabbas@msn.com>
Reply-To: abrahamabbas@o2.pl
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:10:52 +0000
Subject: from mr abbas
sir
I am a staff of Union Bank of Nigeria. I will give you other
important information if I receive a positive reply from you.
I work in the operations dept where I serve as account officer to
numerous customers. One of the customers whom I worked as his account
officer was a wealthy Diamond Merchant from Sierra Leone. He lost his
family
in the war. He was lucky to escape alive and came to this country with
his wealth intact. Unfortunately he died last year.
Because this man was good to me when he was alive, I took it upon
myself to his country last month while i was on my Annual Leave, to see if I
could locate any of his close relations . On reaching there I
discovered that his only surviving Uncle died a few months back from Bullet
Wound Infections. I sponsored this trip on my
own and nobody in My bank knew I was undertaking the journey so I did
not present any official report of my findings in Sierra Leone.
Now there are two things I could do with regards to the dead mans
money.
First,as his accounts officer, I could formally notify the bank
authorities that the man is dead and has no next of kin. In this case the
money would be forfeited to the government after some time. As a matter of
fact this is the proper thing I am supposed to do.
Another thing I can do is to arrange for someone else, a foreigner, to
act as the next of kin to the late man so that he will claim the money.
This is the option that I want to take to help anybody that accepts to
assist me and myself since the money actually is public fund due to the
fact that my friend was a close ally to the late brutal military
president that looted government treasury and that is why I have chosen to
do
it.
I want you to be my partner. All you would have to do is act as the
next of kin of the dead man and the whole money in the account will be
transferred to your account. As the accounts officer to the late man, I
have all the necessary documents that you will require to claim the money
in the account.
The total money in the account is USD17 million. Your share will be 30%
which is USD5,100,000. My own share will be 69%, which is
USD11,730,000.
We shall keep 1% which is USD170,000 for expenses.
Yours truly
Abraham Abbas
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