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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?BACK=20MENSAH?= <bekky_74@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: bekky1974@gawab.com
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 15:50:29 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: GET BACK TO ME
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: bekky_74@yahoo.co.uk
Dear Partner
My name is BECKY MENSAH, I am the credit manager in a bank here in the West Africa. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum
of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of
this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that everything has been well taken care off, and all will be
well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency
of this transaction.To ease your apprehension, I got your contact from
the British chambers of commerce and industry, foreign trade division.
PROPOSITION;
I am the account officer of a foreigner named Gerald Welsh who died in
an air crash along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an
Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board.
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for
this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident(May
his soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account
unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked out by a lawyer for the funds Twenty- Eight million, Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars (US$28,500,000.00) in a domiciliary account to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin. Because after four years the money will be called back to the bank treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors of the bank. so it is on this note i decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to share this money amongst themselves at the end of the year. It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of!
this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.
1.A Beneficiary name;.In order for me to prepare the PAPER WORK for
transfer of the funds in your name.
2.Details particulars of your contact address.
3. Direct Telephone and fax numbers;.For our personal contact.
I shall be compensating you with 25% of the total sum on final
conclusion of this project for your assistance, as I have also thought
of doling out 5% to charity organisation from your locality based on
your recommendation another 5% for the services of the lawyer while the
balance 65% shall be for me for investment purposes in your country as i
cannot bring back this cash to my country.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me
immediately. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in
you by informing you of this transaction from my bank as I will advise
you to kindly desist from responding at all if you do NOT intend to
render any assistance.
Endeavour to respond via my confidential email address
bekky_1974@hotmail.com
Thanks and best regards,
BECKY MENSAH.
- BACK MENSAH
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