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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: "bada williams" <badawilliams@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:33:00 -0700
Subject: PLEASE READ DETAILS CAREFULLY AND RESPOND.
Hello Kusnierz,
Thanks you for your quick response. I am sending you this mail for you to
better understand this proposal so you make up your mind to help me
repatriate this fund and prevent the plans of the directors of the finance
company where this fund is lodged from materializing. I am sure you are not
actually related to this person because we have since carried out a search
on his actual extended family ties and which efforts have been to no avail
and hence my contacting you.
I had contacted you to solicit your honest assistance in reprofiling funds
belonging to my late client. I want you to consider the details so you could
understand the fuller reasons I need your co-operation.
My mail to you was written as a matter of last resort because of the
circumstances surrounding this claim right now. My late client was an oil
merchant and he had oil dealings around Europe and Africa. He lived most of
his years here Nigeria but traveled often. I served as his private attorney
for the last eleven years preceding his death.
I know you may not be anyway related to my client but you need to understand
the main reason I contacted you. I contacted you because after the death of
my late client, I was informed by the finance company to search for any
member of his extended family to put up a claim, or who could be so
represented as managers or trustees for his deposited funds with them, due
to the fact that he died with his immediate family members.
After preliminary efforts of search that came to no avail, we were given a
15days ultimatum to look for some one to come for the claim or have the
funds liquidated and made unserviceable in accordance with existing laws
because it will be assumed that no member of his family is alive.
However, it might interest you to know that, after a thorough investigation
in the finance company, I found out that some members of the company are
currently planning to divert this fund in their selfish interest and only
want to use the excuse that since I am not able to look for some one to make
the claim, the money should be made unserviceable and that means reverting
the fund to the Government while the company retains a percentage of it.
After unraveling their plans and professional consideration on my part, I
decided to look for some one credible, with the same last name with my late
client, to apply for this claim due to the fact that I have at my possession
some legal documents which are very important and which might be requested
by them and which, can only be provided by my chambers since they have since
been with us.
I feel and know that you will be able to make this claim SUCCESSFULLY
because of your last name which is the same as that of my late client's and
as a result of this I do not want the company to be aware that I contacted
you first in order to prevent them from going into much investigations on
whom you actually are and that can put the success of this transaction on
the line. I want you to be rest assured that there would be no breach of law
neither in my country nor your. This is because we would be approaching this
claim with all legal documents so there is no risk involve in this, since
all the legal documents that give you the right to make the claim is
available.
This is a deal I am offering you and I want you to know that it requires
only a mature mind to understand all I am saying and I believe you are
mature enough which is the reason I am going further.
I am taking my time to explain all these to you now because I want you to
see the reasons why my name should never be mentioned any time you are
discussing with the members of the company and why this transaction has to
be kept really confidential in order for us to be able to achieve our goals
neatly.
NOTE that if they request to know how you came to know that your family
member had such an amount of funds with them, which I am not sure they will
ask, but in order to be on the safer side, if you are asked, be confident to
tell them that the extended family discovered some documents in his archives
showing that (Mark) lodged such funds with them and that is why you have
been sent by the paternal family to contact the bank. Anyway, further
deliberations will be held on this as we proceed.
I want you to know that I have these documents to show to you as proof but I
cannot release them for your perusal now for security reasons until I have
attained your confidence, I will provide you with any information you need.
Be informed that after a second thought at the end of the transaction, 50%
comes to me while 40% goes to you and 10% will be shared between us for any
expenses incurred during the course of the transaction and at the end of the
transaction, sharing will take place after taxes have been removed and that
should be done in the United-State when the fund enters your account. If you
have gone through this mail and you feel it is well understood, Please get
back to me telling me if you are willing to go ahead or not so that I can
give you the contact of this finance company where this fund is lodged and
then inform you too on how to proceed.
Note that there is a legal reason for the confidentiality of this
transaction because of the nature of the transactions and the circumstances
surrounding it. I stand a better part of the risk because if at any point,
and for any reason, this Finance House becomes aware of my prior contact
with you, then I could be held for being in breach of a standard code of
conduct which borders on a breach of lawyer/client fiduciary relationship
among others and for this reason, I will appreciate if you are very sure you
can assist with this and execute this with the required diligence.
Please bear in mind that you have to be really sure if you are going ahead
or not for I do not want to jeopardize the success of this transaction which
means so much to me at the moment. I will wait for your response and please
do not forget about the discreet nature of this transaction. I tried calling
you but could not get through because of poor network communication from my
providers at the moment, I will give you a call as soon as the net work gets
better. Or you can call me at any time on my private number.
+234-8057345698.I awaits your response to this mail.
Thanks.
Bada Williams
+234-8057345698.
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