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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: "Bonne Consultants" <consultants_77@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:03:00 +0000
Subject: HAPPY NEW YEAR...URGENT
From the desk;
Mrs.Florence Mark Aku
38,Aguntasolo Street,
Lagos,Nigeria
Private Email:mrs_mark2004@volny.cz
Dear friend, please give attention to this news that has prompt me to write
you. Last week I received a fax message, which came from Union Bank of
Nigeria PLC. In one of the three fax pages was a statement of a dollar
account of the sum of US$35,500,000.00 (thirty five million
five hundred thousand united states dollars) And a request for me to come
down to reconcile the account that has been lying dormant for nearly 3
years. The account has been traced and linked up to me as next of kin. I
went to the bank and was introduce to the credit control officer. He
explained all about the account which belongs to my late husband but with a
different name according to the officer, for over 3 years now no one has
come to make any further transaction with the account.
Its been 3 years now since my husband died in that BAC 111-500 plane that
crash in Kano the northern part of Nigeria. News and photos on the plane
crash involving my husband can still be found on BBC world news till date if
you click on the below web site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968300.stm
my name is Mrs.Florence Mark Aku, the wife but now a widow of the former and
late Minister of Sports and Youth Development of Nigeria, who died in a
plane crash on the 4th of May 2002 as you can read in the BCC world news
above. It has also been 3 years of ontold hardship and mental torture from
my late husband relatives on me and my three children due to their old
custom that says i should automatically be re-married to the younger brother
of my late husband in other to retain the properties and money me and my
late husband labourd for years to acquire, and since i refuse such offer,
myself and my 3 children have been subjected to maltreatment. The WILL was
stolen while our bank account froozen and properties confiscated. We were
then left with no other choice than to move back to the government quarters
for shelter. The sport ministry has done little or nothing to help.
This particular account remain unknown to them otherwise they would have
move to freeze it too. I therefore want to close the account and withdraw
all the fund from the bank. I have already discuss it with the bank manager,
but i have to keep it strictly confidential to avoid my late husband
relatives knowing. To acheive this i will have to transfer all rights of
next of kin to another person but i need a sincere and trust worthy person.
I am also afraid to make use of a Nigerian for fear to exposing the
transaction. I am therefore soliciting through this medium for your
sincerety and trust in assisting me to get rid of this fund from the bank as
a matter of urgency for onward investment in your country. I am prepared to
make it a mutual benefit for the two of us by allowing you have some
percentage share of the fund, rather than paying you service fee. Further
information and modalities of sharing the fund between me and you will be
discussed upon the receipt of your favourable response.Please send your
reponse to me or my lawyer through the below contact details.
BEN MATINS & ASSOCIATES,BARRISTERS, LEGAL ADVISERS AND
SOLICITORS OF THE SUPREME HIGH COURT OF NIGERIA. 21 AHMADU
CRESENT V/ISLAND,
CONTACT PERSON: BAR.BEN MATINS
TEL:+234 8029 445 704
LAGOS - NIGERIA. email: bencopson@hotmail.com
He is the person in charge of the entire transaction to avoid suspecion from
my late husband relative who are still watching every of my movement.I look
forward to your urgent response.
Thank you, God bless.
Yours Truly,
Mrs.Florence Aku
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