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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: John Chukwu <johnchukwu03@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 14:51:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I need your urgent assistance
Dear sir,
Good day,
I am sure you will be surprised at this letter that I am sending to you as we have never met before. But let me introduce myself to you. I am Mr John Chukwu the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of my Bank. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of US$10M,(Ten Million US Dollars) that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his wife and only daughter in a plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight number 261 which crashed on 31 January, 2000.If however you are doubt of this you could read more about the crash on visiting this website found below:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
The owner of this account is Mr Morris Thompson an American and great industrialist and a resident of Alaska. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and for our bank to release the money to you. You have to follow the instruction and information which I will send to you as the next of kin and the only surviving relation of the deceased.Since nobody is coming forward to claim this money I don't want it to be trasferred into our bank treasury as unclaimed bill.The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after seven years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The money has now stayed more than six years and I am preparing documentaion to prove that this money has been transfered to our bank treasury. It will be between me and you only that will know that the money is not transfered into our treasure. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this transaction is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Senegalese cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. In appreciation of your assistance, I am offering you 30% of the total sum. 5% for contingencies (cost of transfer/other charges) likely to be incurred during the course of transaction, while the remaining 65% is for me.
Upon receipt of your reply, you will be kept informed with more details on this transaction will be executed.I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer to be effected in your favor. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this mail for further directives.
Sincerely,
Mr John Chukwu
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