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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: "General Verissimo" <gvfamily148@msn.com>
Reply-To: v.peggy@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:39:45 +0000
Subject: Happy New Year...
Good Day,
Happy new year.
I duly apologize if am interfering on your privacy if this request is not
acceptable to you. First I wish to introduce myself properly to you.I am
Miss Verissimo Peggy Aku,the dauther of the former Guinea-Bissau army chief
killed(General Verissimo Correia Seabre)under the present government of my
home country.I Refer you to this website for its
details;(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3720218.stm)
As you will see from the above site,my father was just murdered in cold
blood and now leaving me and my brother fatherless.However prior to his
death he deposit the of sum of Twenty Three Million British Pounds
Sterling(£23.000.000)in this country where we are now.My father's lawer who
informed me of this,told me that he agreed with the bank that he or the
foreign partner will come for the transfer of the funds on a later date.
I and my brother flew to Cote D'Ivoire for the claim of the fund,we located
the bank and presented all the legal documents to the bank,but the bank
refuse to give to us the fund of my father,they told us in the bank that my
father has already registered the fund unexpress transfer to Leave Africa,so
we spook to the head of treasury depatment of the bank and he advice us to
look for a forign parter to help us contact the bank for the claim of the
fund.So,I am soliciting for your help now to come and help us to secure this
inheritance as my late father's foreign partner.
Please we need your help to get our fund and leave Cote d'Ivoire and start a
new and happy life. As soon as the fund is transfered to you,I will come to
your country and if everthing is ok,I will come back to get my brother out
of Cote d'Ivoire,and if its ok for you to also come to Cote d'Ivoire and
meet me and my brother and help us here it is also very nice.We shall
discuss your percentage(%)for your effort,input and any expenes you may
incure to see this transaction through.
On reciept of your reply to this mail through my private yahoo email address
peggy_verissimo@yahoo.co.uk i will send to you the legal document that was
given to my father by the bank when he deposited the fund with the bank for
your view and the bank contact for your verification.Bye for now and hope to
hear from you soon.
Best regards,
Peggy.
NB:Please,remember that any delay in reply will give me room to look for
another person for the same purpose.
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