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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: "lewis philips" <lewisphilips3115@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: lewisphilips400@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:15:11 +0200
Subject: AN INVESTMENT IN YOUR COMPANY
FROM:MR LEWIS PHILIPS
DIRECTOR:DELIVERY/OPERATIONS
RE: TRANSFER OF OVER US$15M FOR INVESTMENT.
I am Mr. LEWIS PHILIPS, the Director of Delivery/Operations in a security
company here in South Africa. Our firm is a security company of high repute
with years of outstanding service to the people of Africa especially top
government officials and military leaders here in Africa. I have resolved to
contact you through this medium based on business proposal that will be of
mutual benefit to both of us. I have not discussed this transaction with
anybody because it is of top secret.
To be explicit and straight to the point, Sometime early 2000, a reputable
client of ours deposited a consignment in our company's vault for safe
keeping. And since then our client has failed to come forward to claim his
consignment which has accumulated a considerable amount of money in
demurrage. Consequently, in our bide to contact this client to redeem the
demurrage which his consignment had accumulated we discovered that our
client was the former president of the Federal Republic of Togo, who died of
illness.
Since the death of our client President Gmassingbe Nyandema of Togo, none of
his benefactors has come forward to claim the consignment with us, which
means that non of his relatives or aids had any knowledge of this
consignment. Hence out of curiosity I decided to source vault. And to my
surprise I discovered that the two boxes that were registered as treasures
by our client actually contained a considerable amount of money in United
States Dollars estimated to be over US$15million US Dollar.
Since this development I have been nursing plans secretly. I also found out
from enquiries and the foreign media that our late client siphoned a lot of
money from his country while he was in office as head of state. It is my
conviction that the consignment in our vault was part of the money that our
client siphoned and now that he is dead there is no trace to this money in
our care. I am now soliciting your noble assistance to assist me in
transferring this money out of South Africa to your country for immediate
investment with your assistance.
I have also decided that you will generously be entitled to 40% of the
total amount. Upon my receipt of your reply confirming your willingness to
assist me of this transaction, I will immediately arrange and transfer all
the rights ownership of this consignment to your name to facilitate your
easy clearance and transfer of the complete funds to your country for
onwards investment. This transaction is 100% risk free. Please maintain
absolute confidentiality on this matter and let me have your phone numbers
to speak further on this
I await your most prompt response.
Yours faithfully.
MR. Lewis Philips
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