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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: "Balo Roger" <baloroger@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: contactbalo@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:25:17 +0000
Subject: Next Of Kin To Late Mr. Richard Grant
From: Balo Roger
Private Email: contactbalo@hotmail.com
Subject: Next Of Kin To Late Mr. Richard Grant
Date: Jan 28th, 2006.
Dear Friend,
I apologize if the contents hereunder are contrary to your moral ethics, but
please treat it with absolute secrecy and personal courtesy. First, I would
like to introduce my self, I am Balo Roger an Auditor of a commercial Bank
here in Lagos, in the process of auditing our bank accounts for the Final
quarter of this Year, I and one of my colleagues were able to discover that
there is a dormant account valued at the sum $4,500,000.00 (Four Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) and after due verification on
this account we discovered that the customer (Richard Grant a foreigner) who
owns this dormant account is late, so that is why the account has been
dormant with a close balance of $4,500,000.00 which has been lying in his
account, unclaimed.
The idea of presenting somebody (preferably a foreigner) to stand as his
next of kin came into our mind, that is how and why we have decided to
contact you so as to present you as his Next of Kin, so that the
$4,500.000.00 in his dormant account would be paid to you as his Next of
Kin, and we can both disburse the fund according to the sharing ratio we
shall both agree upon.
In view of this, I am seeking your co-operation and understanding to stand
as the Next of Kin to our deceased customer to enable us claim the fund from
our bank.
Hence, If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take undue
advantage of my trust, then I hope to bestow on you. Please kindly get back
to me immediately, strictly via my private email address only:
contactbalo@hotmail.com to enable me enlighten you on how we are to proceed.
On getting your response, we shall agree on the sharing ratio between both
parties, meanwhile, we intend investing part of our own share in Real Estate
Business or any lucrative business over there in your country, and we would
appreciate if you advise us lucrative areas of investment where we can
invest our own share in your country.
I will not contact any person or companies until I hear from you, so as to
enable me decide on what to do next. Be rest assured that this business is
100% risk free.
Please get back as soon as you can.
Best Regards,
Balo Roger.
NB: PLEASE NOTE THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE NOT RELATED TO MY LATE
CUSTOMER; THE FUND WILL STILL BE PAID TO YOU, SINCE WE ARE PRESENTING YOU AS
HIS NEXT OF KIN.
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