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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: "MICHAEL SCOTT" <michael.scott1000@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: MICHAEL.SCOTT1010@YAHOO.COM
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:49:10 +0100
Subject: TREAT WITH UTMOST URGENCY AND CONFIDENTIALITY
Greetings,
I hope this mail will not come to you as a surprise. I got your contact
through your country's International Chamber of Commerce (I.C.C) and decided
to contact you for a mutual business relationship. I am Mr. Michael Scott, a
manager in the Bills and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of
one of the leading banks in Ghana. I am writing this letter to ask for your
support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my
department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of $12,500,000.00USD (Twelve Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers late Mr. Paul Philip of United States Of America who
happened to be an independent oil marketer who died along with his entire
family a wife and two children on 21st November 2001 in an auto crash.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come
over and put claims to his money as the heir, as we cannot release the fund
from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, neither
family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund
and it is in our banking guideline that if none of the relatives come up to
claim this fund after five years of the death of the late customer, the fund
will be regarded as an unclaimed bill and will be transferred to the bank's
treasury account.
Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to
make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the
heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained an
account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks
treasury as unclaimed fund which we do not want. We have agreed that our
ratio of sharing will be as stated thus; 30% for you as a foreign partner,
65% for us the officials in my department and 5% for the settlement of all
local and foreign expenses incurred by you and us during the course of this
business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues
will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 65% we intend
to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of recycling the
fund. To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate
your interest by a return e-mail with the following information:
1. Your private telephone and fax number.
2. Your country of origin and residence.
3. Your contact address.
4. Your age.
5. Full name.
Upon the receipt of this, I will in turn get back to you and give you the
modalities for the bank to approve you as the next-of-kin. Note also, this
transaction must be kept confidential because of its nature as I look
forward to receiving your prompt response.
Best Regards
Mr. Michael Scott
NOTE: Please get back to me at my private email: michael.scott1010@yahoo.com
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