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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: SIR WILLIAMS MUSA <sirwilliamsmusa@aol.com>
Reply-To: sir_williamsmusa@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 03:40:31 -0800
Subject: YOUR CONFIDENTIAL RESPONSE
Hello Friend,
I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything will be
well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the
urgency of this transaction.
I am Williams Musa, the personal accountant to Mr Carl Joe, nationality
of your country .He was a specialist Seasoned Contractor with Shell
Petroleum Company in Lagos Nigeria, who unfortunately died in the plane
crash of Union Transport Africaines Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou, Benin Republic on the December 26,2003.
You will read more stories about the crash on visit in
this website: Www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/
Before his death on the 26th December 2003. He has a fixed Deposit
account with one of the biggest commercial bank here in Nigeria and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me that his supposed next of kin died along with him in the crash. Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any
of my clients Extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these Several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you but
i know you might not know him due to the fact that he has been in africa for a very long time, we can get this money before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank.
Consequently, Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives
For a while now.
I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
so that the proceeds of this account valued at USD$21.5M (Twenty-One
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only)can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money.
I will obtain all the necessary legal documents on your behave as the
next of kin to the late deceased that can be used to back up any Claim we may make. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the Law and am assuring you that it is 100% risk free transaction.
1.Your Name
2.Your contact address
3.Your most confidential telephone number
4.Fax number
5.Exclusive e-mail, so that I can forward to you the
relevant details of this transaction.
Thanks for Your anticipated assistance.
Best Regards
Williams Musa.
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