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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: "bruce smith" <br_smit444@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: brusmith1991@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 11:33:34 +0000
Subject: Re:Confidential...Can i trust you...?
Attn:
Dear ,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Below is a
confidential proposal we hope you would understand and treat as urgent as it
demands.
A foreigner, late Engineer Johnson Creek, an Oil Merchant / contractor with
the federal Government of Nigeria, until his death three years ago in a
ghastly oil explosion, in Niger Delta area claiming about twenty life’s.
late engr. creek, banked with us here at Union Bank PLC., Lagos, and have a
closing balance of USD$18.5M (Eighteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by
any of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a
discredited trust fund for alms and ammunition at a military war college
here in Nigeria. Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the Union Bank
to get in touch with any of the Creek family or relatives but all have
proved to no avail.
It is because of the perceived possibility of not going to be able to locate
any of late Engr. Johnson Creek's next of kin (he had no known wife and
children) that the management under the influence of our Chairman, board of
directors, Retired Major General Kalu Uke Kalu, that an arrangement for the
fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE" and then be subsequently donated to the
Trust Fund for Alms and Ammunition which will further enhance the course of
war in Africa and the world in general.
In order to avert this negative development, myself and some of my trusted
colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have you stand as
late Engr. Johnson Creek's next of kin so that the fund, USD$18.5M would be
subsequently transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary
next of kin. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been
carefully worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement.
Your share would be 10% of the total amount. Another 10% has been set aside
for expenses while the rest would be for me and my colleagues for investment
purposes in your country. If this proposal is OK. by you and you do not wish
to take advantage of the trust we hope to bestow on you, then kindly get to
me immediately via my e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential
telephone, fax number and exclusive e-mail so that I can forward to you the
relevant details of this transaction and the way forward.
Regards,
DR Bruce Smith,
DIRECTOR FOREIGN REMITTANCE,
Union Bank Plc Nig.
PRIVATE EMAIL: brucesmith_10@yahoo.com
TEL/FAX: 234-805-313-6784
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