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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: "wilson hill66" <wilsonhill66@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: willson_1@email.com
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:39:03 +0000
Subject: Reply Urgent
#25 Mbete close,
Port Elizabeth.
Republic of South Africa
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(TRANSFER OF ($ 26,000.000.00 USD}
{TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS)
Hello,
Warmest greetings to you.I want to solicit your attention to transfer to
overseas (26,000,000.00 USD) twenty six million United States Dollars from a
Bank in Africa. I also want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and
honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank
account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even
an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain
honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and
believing that you will never let me down either now or in future.
I am Mr. Wilson Hill, the Auditor General of a bank in Africa, during the
course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in
the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this
account again.After going through some old files in the records, I
discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the
money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently
it will be forfeited for nothing.The owner of this account is a foreigner
and a miner.He made millions of dollars before he died misteriously .Since
1993 no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it. My
investigation proved to me that the account has no other beneficiary, We
will start the first transfer with six million dollars[$6,000,000.00]upon
successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account.
The amount involved is (USD 26M) twenty six million United States Dollars, I
want to first transfer $6,000,000.00 [Six million United States Dollars]from
this money into a safe foreigners account abroad
before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner. I am only contacting you as
a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local person here
without a valid foreign international passport, but
can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or
drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US dollars and the
former owner of the a/c, Mr. Howard Sweeney was a foreigner
too, [and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c].I need your
full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to
approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this
account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am
convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of a key
bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business.
I need your strong assurance that you will never,never let me down.So,please
reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take . Send also
your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the
account to be used for the deposit and about yourself.With my influence and
the position of the bank official, we can transfer this money to any
foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this
money will be intact pending
my physical arrival in your country for sharing. I will apply for annual
leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to act and
receive this fund in your account. I will use my position and influence to
obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account
with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange
departments.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of transferring.
Sincerely,
Mr.Wilson Hill.
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