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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: Amina Dede <aminadede_fmly@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:50:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE
Hello Dear ,
Please don’t be offended or embarrassed of receiving this mail from me. Before I go on with my proposal, I will first introduce myself as Miss Amina Dede the only child and daughter of late chief Teko Dede. Am a nationality of Gambia in West Africa am 22years old girl. I lost my mother in auto crash when I was ten years old I and my father was resinding in Europe before he got sick and was forced to come back to his country Gambia on 11th of Dec 2004 before he later died.Before my father’s death he has some money he lodged in one of the finance /security company in Europe , He packaged it in a trunk box and registered it as our family treasure consignment not money for security reasons, the amount of the fund he deposited was $Nine Million Six hundred thousand dollars ($9.6million dollars).
Before my father's death he handed over all the documents that concerns of the deposited fund in Europe though am presently with the deposit certficate. secondly, I have contacted the finance company and the said that am under age that I need a grantor/guardian who will take care of the consignment for own used before they would be able to release the box to me right now am writing to you am leaving in quarc in Gambia suffering and hungry is about killing me I have stopped my education due to no money to take care of school fees.
That is why I write for your assistance, to go and claim the fund and take good care of me.I will provide to you all the vital papers that will back you and also appoint an Attorney that would represent you for the legalization and signing documents for the release of the consignment to you.
I beg you in the name of our God to assist me, so that I will start living good as a human being only God will reward you. immediately I receive your fruitful respond I will send to you the contact address of the finance /security company contact in Europe for you to contact the company for the recovering of the fund please remember not to allow the security company to notice that the content of the consignment was money so that will not take it from us I wait for your answer as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely
Amina Dede.
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