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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: richard konate <r_konate02@yahoo.ca>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 07:06:10 -0500 (EST)
Subject: From Richard konate
Dear friend,
Pardon me if I have offended you by contacting you for such a big transaction through an ordinary letter which makes it suspicious considering the type of fraud proposals moving around the world today. However, I thought to explain this transaction to you on face to face meeting.
I could not do this because of the situation in the world today not being sure of your reaction,but I consider the urgency of this project, to write you, on my deep conviction about your company,after my deligent search for a honest and trustworthy someone,of which I have chosen you to assist me for the execution of this project that is at hand.
I am Mr Richard Konate,BANK Of AFRICA (BOA), Abidjan,Ivory Coast West Africa.
On 16th day of September 2002, I was approached by the former military leader General Robert Guei, to use my office for the onward transfer of a Fixed deposit of Sixteen million united states dollars(US$16,000,000,00) in our Institution,into a foreign account of his french partner Monsieur Andrea Pires,he promised to appease me with US$100,000 as inducement,after the transfer.
But on 19th day of the same week,we heard over the radio,that General Robert Guei and others was killed in a coup de ' eta, to overthrow the democratically elected government of President Laurent Gbagbo.The news put this country in total confussion, which brought the emergency section of the United Nation Security Council,that are presently today in Ivory Coast, and this resulted into ethnic and tribal war that has now divide out country into two parts,with the Rebels in control of the northern part of the country.
I secured this file in my own private locker, because the news is so sad that his entire family was killed by soldiers royal to the government,because of the death of the minister of interior that was killed durring the incident.
I was later contacted by Monsieur Pires,for the transfer,which I bluntly discharged him,that the account has been freezed by the government,because I saw it as my own opportunity to divert the fund for my own mutual benefit, because looking at the present political crisis in our country,which have now affected the normal way of life,it is not safe for me to invest this money here in our country, I am the only one that is in control of this account,with all the available information necessary for the legal transfer of this fund into a foriegn account of my wish,which I want you to provide your bank account to the bank as I have mapped a simple mode of operation for the success of this transfer.
I look forward for your positive reply.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Konate
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