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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: elder chinedu <elderchinedu@yahoo.ie>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:26:25 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: VERY URGENT PLS
FROM THE DESK OF DEACON JOHN
INTERCONTINENTAL BANK
ABUJA,
ATTN SIR
Kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you. Although
we never meet before, I have every reason to believe that you are a
highly respected personality, considering the fact that I sourced your
profile from a human resource profile database on your country.
Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events and
fragile political situation in Nigeria and so many things that has happened recentlyfrom headlines in the CNN, BBC news bulletins, My name is DEACON ELDER CHINEDU,you can verify this from these international newspaper ,
Pls one of my coustomer was among the passengers who was on board with a bellviwe air line which crashed and killed about one hunderd and seventeen poeeple on board ,
pls he is a german who has a contract with the federal government and now he is dead,iam his accounting officer here in nigeria and it happenes that the decessed has no next of kin and now iam looking for who will assit me of been next of kin to him now so that it will be easier for me to transfer the money before the bank will notice what is going okay as iam the incharge of monitoring his account,the amount in his account as at when he did contract last for nigeria was $28.6 million us dollars.
My decision to contact you is therefore, informed by this and due to my
present social status and as a bnker i do not have the qualities and total ignorance of the business world. I
believe you will appreciate the enormity of trust I repose on you by
Permit me to request that
you should reassure me that you would not let me down in any way. On my
part, this is my assurance and guarantee to you.In as much as you follow
my instructions carefully, religiously and promptly my guarantee of a
hitch-free success remains unshakable. You will be given 30% of the total sum at the end of the transaction.
If you will be willing to assist us claim the money as the next of kin to this young man who is a german okay,
. I want to assure you that all modalities are in place and it
is a risk free transaction.
Kindly include your Full names, Private Telephone and Fax numbers where
you can always be reach,your banking informations, Your Residential or Company Address to enable
me send some other important information across to you. This proposal
is highly restricted and should be handled as an urgent transaction
requiring trust and Confidentiality.
Sincerely,
Deacon Elder chinedu
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