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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: mariam kone <mariam_kone17@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:08:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From Mariam
Dearest One,
I will be very happy to hear from you no matter that we have never seen each other before, i am writing this mail to you with tears in eyes because of what i have been passing through here as an orphan child since the death of my perents, first, my name is Mariam Kone, 18yrs old undergraduate,
the only Daughter of my perents Alhaji Mohamed Kone from Abidjan the economical capital city of Cote D’ Ivoire in West Africa,I lost my mother when I was a baby since then my father took me very special before he died last year, Before his death, he was a coco machendise before he was poisoned to death by his business associate on one of their out going on a business trip finaly he died in a private hospital here,
before his death he called me at his sick bed and disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of Ten Million Five Houndred Thousand USDollars($10.5m) concealed in a trunk box which he deposited in the security company here in Abidjan which he declared as family valuables iteam. Because of political problems here, the security company transferd the consignment to their affilate office in Europe, now the consignment is in Europe waiting for the clearance, Please my dear I want you to assist me stand as my nominated foreign trustee and claim the box from the affiliate office of the security company in europe on my behalf, This money was meant for the importation of machineries for his coco/coffee processing plantation for a company which he wanted to establish in Abidjan – Cote d'Ivoire.
Unfortunately he did not live to achieve it before his death, I am appealing to you for your assistance to help me retrieve this consignment from the security company on my behalf and aid me to leave Africa and come over to your place to secure my life and obtain a resident permit so that I can further my education in your place, since i have no experience or interest in his type of business please I contacted you as a reliable and trust worthy business partner who will assist me to claim, secure and invest the funds in any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life to live in future, I promised you 20% of this fund to you if the consignment was successfuly transferd to your care on my behalf, please I will like to live this place immediatly becouse of the treatening given to me over my life by my uncles because of my fathers proparty, I am happy to inform you that all the neccessery documents that leads to the depositment of this
consignment is intact with me of which I will like to forward it to you, please I will like to hear urgently from you.
Thanks and be blessed
Yours Sincerely,
Mariam Kone
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