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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: gezi1290gezi@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:15:10 +0200
Subject: next of the kin needed
Dear Friend,
With warm hearts and my greetings I hope this email-message meets you in good time. It will be strange to you to receive this e-mail from me since you do not know me personally. However, I am sincerely seeking your assistance in this transaction, which I propose with my free mind as a person of integrity.
My name is William Ghazi, the son of late Mr. Samuel Ghazi, a business man from Sudan, Who was murdered during the conflict between Sudanese Government and SPLMA (Sudan People's Libration Movement Army) over the control of our natural resources, and the introduction of so-called Islamic law system (Sharia law) by Lieutenant-General Omar Hassan al-Bashir. In my family, we are christians and my father opposed the idea of the sharia for the control of our natural resources policy by the new government. The government then ordered the malitia to kill my beloved father and his shops was burnt down and everything looted.
As led by my instinct, I decided to contact you through e-mail, as it is the only means I can contact anybody. I apologize if this is not acceptable by you. After the death of my father, our local pastor and my father's lawyer handed us over his will documents with instructions from my father that we should leave Sudan incase anything happens to him.
The will documents has a certificate of deposit, confirming a cash deposit totalling Eighteen million united state dollars (18m) being money he made from oil deals, kept in custody for us in a security and finance company, unknown to the company that the content is money because it was deposited as personal belongings. This money was deposited with Security and finance Company for safety and security reasons, which was to be used for the purchase of land, new farm machinery and equipment for a new office in Darfur region.
This violent and barbaric act by Sudanese Government and SPLMA has since led to the death of my beloved mother and kid sister and other innocent lives. I was continually threatened to abandon my inheritance from my father after he was murdered. I resisted for a while, but when the dangers became unbearable, I fled Sudan with the help of my father's close friend Mr Kennedy Burns from Canada. He is an oil merchant who was living in Sudan with us but left with his family following the ugly development of the civil war.
I am currently staying in South Africa where I am seeking political asylum. In fact my decision to come here to seek asylum, is because of the security and finance company where the money was deposited. I need to transfer this money t! o your account and invest part of the money. This is why I am seeking a genuine and reliable partner like you, you have to understand that this decision taken by me is a very big and brave one, and I entrusts my future in your hands.
I hope you 'll accept to assist me with arrangements to claim the deposit from the security and finance company from their office here in South Africa. I' m prepared to give you 20% of the total amount in question.
Best Regards
William Ghazi
+27-781-766-966
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