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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: "joe charles" <joecharles01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: joecharles01_ecobankplc@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:06:47 +0000
Subject: REPLY URGENTLY
AUDITING DEPARTMENT
ECOBANK PLC
ATTN:
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a
hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. I am Mr joe charles a banker
with the a large bank in Nigeria West Africa. I am the Accounts officer of
late Mr. Bob Chapman the African Area Director of SIL International, who
unfortunately died with his wife Ruth in the crash of Kenya Airways Flight
431 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, January 30 2000.
You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website, ,
www.wycliffe.org/media/Press/KenyaAirCrash.htm and
also in this website, where Bobs company talked about his death in the Kenya
crash. Mr Bob Chapman and his wife Ruth were from
Hamilton, Ontario Canada. Since the death of Bob, I as his accounts officer
in
the bank, have made several enquiries to locate his only surviving relation,
without any success.
I came across your name and contact, on the course of my personal searching
for reliable and honest person whom will transact this business with me so i
decided to contact you for this project. I am contacting you to assist in
repatriating and securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account
by Bob, before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by my bank.
The board of my bank, has issued a notice that after 2 months from now and
no next of kin shown up for the claim, the funds will be confiscated and
declared unserviceable. Since I and my team have been unsuccessful in
locating Bobs relatives for sometime now, I seek your consent to present you
as the Next of Kin of the deceased since you are a foreigner, so that the
proceed of this deposit valued at $USD24.6 Million Dollars can be released
to you.
The bank will release the funds to any foreigner who has all related
information/documents to the bank account. I am in charge of this matter in
my bank, because I am his accounts officer. Your application will be
directed to my department for verification and approval. Everything is under
my control.I shall provide you all the information and copy of the
certificate of deposit issued to Bob when he deposited the funds.
I shall also involve a good attorney who shall represent you in all the
appropriate offices for the claim. I also have all necessary information we
need for the claim and once the money is transferred to you, I shall destroy
all the documents used for the claim and leave no traces. After everything,
you shall have 30% of the total sum,while 60% for me and 10% for expences
either of us may incure. All i require is your honest cooperation to enable
us see this business successful.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. Bob was a very good man and it
is not wise to allow his hard earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy
directors of my bank. Further details awaits your response by email. PLEASE,
TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.
Best Regards,
joe charles.
`Reply me with my private email joecharles01_ecobankplc@yahoo.com.
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