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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: "Andrew Brown" <andrew_brown65@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: andrew_brown046@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:36:12 +0000
Subject: PLEASE REPLY ME ASAP
Dear Sir
I am Mr.Andrew brown, the Auditor General of Natwest Bank Plc, London.
I
have decided to contact you through this medium based on a business
proposal, which will be of mutual benefit to both of us. However, I got
your
contact through a BUSINESS TRADE MANUAL in London in my search for a
foreign business partner whom I will transfer this fund in his personal
or
company's account.
My reason for contacting you is that during the annual bank auditing,
we
discovered an abandoned sum of US$ 48,500 000:00 (Forty Eight MILLION
Five Hundred Thousand US DOLLARS ONLY) in an account that belong to
one of our foreign customers (Richard Burson) 77 years,of Venice,
Florida
USA lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990,which crashed into the
Atlantic Ocean on October 31,1999. View this website:
( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm) .Since we got
the
information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to
come over and claim his money, because we can not release it unless
some body apply for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines. The accumulated interest from 1999 till
date has been calculated to be US$1,000,000. So that total money to be
released now is US$49,500,000.
Unfortunately, nobody has ever come forward to claim this money. It is
based on this, that I have decided to establish a cordial/confidential
business relationship with you, hence my contacting You. If you
indicate
interest in this transaction I will let you know the steps to take for
a
smooth transaction for the approval of this fund from the Bank in your
favour.
The mode of sharing after the transfer of the money into your nominated
bank account will be as follows: 60% for me, 35% will be given to you
for
your assistance and 5% will be mapped out to offset expenses during the
course of the transaction. In receipt of this mail,you can reply via
email and
kindly send me your private telephone and fax numbers for easy
communication. Please treat this proposal STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL to
avoid loosing my job with the bank because the bank is planning to
revert
this money to bank's dormant account.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
Thank you for your for understanding and co-operation.
Mr.Andrew brown.
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