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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: charles ado <charlesadopa2005@yahoo.ca>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 05:49:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: IN NEED OF YOUR HELP( REPLY VERY URGENTLY)
Prince Charles Ado Sister.
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.
Email: charlesadopa2005@yahoo.ca
Dear Respectful,
Permit me to inform you of our desire of going into business
relationship with you. I know you might be surprised on recieving
this mail due to we have not met before. By brief introduction , I am
Prince Charles ado from Ado family, a citizen of Cote
d´Ivoire and the senior Son of late Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Ado. My
late parents were killed by the military rebels in my home town
BOUAKE the second economic capital of Cote d´Ivoire during the recent
political Crisis in my country which led to the assasination of the
country's first military president Gen.Robert Geui.
My parents were wealthy Cocoa Merchants before they were brutally
assasinated by the rebels. Before his death in a private specialist
hospital , my father secretly confided to me of the total sum of
US$11.5 million dollars he deposited in one of the well known
commercial banks here in Abidjan-Cote d´Ivoire which he wanted to
transfer abroad for investment through a foreign partner's account as
co-beneficiary to assist in his proposed oil business wanted to
established in europe or america.
My father also told me his intension to invest this money in
allocation of oil business with companies in countries like Saudi
Arabia ,Libya, America or Europe.
Dear, I am honourably seeking your assistance to stand as our foreign
partner to and to act as guardian of the money to provide a bank
account for the transfer of this fund into your bank on our behalf
for investment in your country and for the mutual benefits of our
both families. And the
amount in the account is US$11.5 million dollars.
Note that we have choosen you to assist us invest the money in oil
business in any of the countries where you felt is politically
condusive for investment opportunities. I will also like you to make
arrangement for me and my sister to further our Education in your
country.
We have agreed to offer you 20.5% of the total sum as your
compensation if you can assist us in this most important and valued
objective and you will serve as guardian to the company that you will
establish for us until we are capable of managing it ourselves.
Please reply this mail immediately by indicating your acceptance to
co-operate through the above email contact address. Please send the
following information for immediate submission to the bank here as
authorised receipient:-
1)Your account name.
2)Account number.
3)Telephone & fax numbers.
4)Bank address and contacts . As soon as I receive this information I
will send to you the
lodgement slip of the fund for you to contact the bank.
Now we are lying helplessly in one of the local hotels here
Yamussoukro-Cote
d´Ivoire . We need your urgent attention to this transaction to
enable the bank transfer this money to your account abroad and to
enable us come over there to your continue or education.
NOTE: The rebels has taken over our town Bouake and are in posession
of our parents properties and now we have nobody again to care about
us, except our hope on you and on this money awaiting to
be transferred into your account as our only inheritance for our future
benefits. Please reply urgently. If you are thus and truly disposed to
assist
me in transferring this fund kindly write me through my e-mail address:
charlesadopa2005@yahoo.ca
Expecting to hear from you.
Best Regard and God Bless.
Prince Charles Ado Sister
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