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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: "Taylor Kabila" <taylorkabila10@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: taylorkabila1@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:06:01 +0100
Subject: YOUR ASSISTANCE NEEDED SIR!
First and foremost let me use these opportunity of introducing myself to you and i must solicit your confidence in these transaction that my wish to contact you with genuine approval, considering the fact that i have not known you before.
I am Taylor Kabila by name a native from Monrovia in Liberia from West Africa, i write you to know my desire in investing and buying a living house in your country with your assistance.
I am the first son and heir to the late Dr. Michael Kabila, who was the former minister of Diamond mining co-operation in my country. My father was shot by rebels on his way traveling to lusia, a sub city after Freetown, the capital city of sierra lone along with my late sister. My sister died on the spot while the UN peace keeping force was able to rescue my father and rushed him to the hospital but he later died 3months after, due to the bullet wounds.
Before he died in the hospital, he revealed to me about boxes containing $20.8 million U S dollars with Gold and Diamond inside the boxes which he deposited in CONSOLIDATED SAFE SECURITY/COURIER SERVICE COMPANY in Ghana as family valuables and the content inside the boxes was not revealed to the company to avoid the officials from raising eye brows.
Presently i and my mother are here in Ghana to notify the security company for claims, we are living in the refugee camp in Ghana. Therefore i write you to lecture me on how best we can invest these fund in your country, because my father told me that it is dangerous to invest these money in Africa to avoid suspicious, and due to market instability in Africa coupled with economic and political instability facing Africa countries like mine, that is why i want to invest in oversea country.
For your foreign assistance i and my mother is willing to offer you 20% of the total amount of money.
We have all vital documents covering the deposit and the ownership certificates of the boxes in the security company which i can send to you through fax if i can get your private fax contact.
NOTE: I have never disclosed this transaction to anyone else apart from you due to your personality, so you have to keep this transaction very confidential.
Send me your Private phone contact and fax number for more details, you can also contact my late father attorney, its name is BARRISTER BEDIAKO JUNIOR, Email him at bediakochamber1@hotmail.com; Tel 00233-244924424.
Thanks once more and i hope to hear from you soonest.
Taylor Kabila
00233-246196615
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