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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: "Rev.Father John Martins" <john@bwp.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: johnmartins117@myway.com
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:08:42 +0100
Subject: MOU
FROM:The Office of Rev.Father John Martins
Director Special Duties,IMF/WORLD BANK Fact-Finding
Office in Conjuntion with The Bretton Woods Project
Critical Voices on the IMF and the World Bank.
Hamlyn House, Macdonald Road
London, N19 5PG, UK
Tel:+44-70-3196-8175 Fax:+44-20-8328-3581
Dear Beloved,
I am Rev.Father John Martins, a senior staff with the IMF/World Bank fact finding & special duties office here in London. I am writing you this letter base on the fact that cool penny is better than millions, it's better for one to live and die poor honest man than a rich dishonest one. I and the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of this organization have arranged with an officer in the computer section to bring out part of your long total pending payment with reference number (WB/IMF-3SG-371)amounting to US$8M.
We did this base on the information gathered from the banks/security data that you have been waiting for a long time to receive this payment with out success. The data also indicated that you've almost met all the statutory requirements in respect of your pending payment but your problem is that of interest groups within the Parastatals A lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are merely doing paper work with you and that explains why you receive different kind of untrue emails,phone and fax messages from different people everyday. Also we found out that some of the officials within the parastatals have been extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of helping you receive your money. I can assure you that this endless demand will keep on if you do not do away or stop your dealings with then.
The said payment is been arranged in a security-proof box weighing 60kg and in order to get this box shipped to you, I and the (CSO) have visited four courier companies DHL, EMS, FedEx and UPS to make arrangements on how to get the box shipped to you by secure courier services, the said courier companies made us to understand that they will have to open the box for inspection by the customs before shipment. This is something we want to avoid because this box is been padded with synthetic nylon and to open it you will have to cut the pad before you will meet the buttons and de-activate dial code-lock. There is no way you can open the box and be able to close it again because it was padded with machine. We told the courier services that the box contained film materials and when open will damage the materials. NOTE: we did not declare money because courier does not carry money.
Today a friend of mine,a diplomat who works with the United Nation (UN) office in America disclosed to me that there is a courier company that specialized in handling diplomatic materials for the UN which has diplomatic immunity and consignment such as this cannot be checked by any customs anywhere in the world. I met with the officials of the Courier Company and we've concluded shipments arrangement with them, which they will commence as soon as I have your go ahead order.
The diplomats that will deliver this box to you is an expact and has professional record for so many years now so we have nothing to worry about. After all the arrangements we have concluded that you must donate Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$500,000.00) to any charity organization I designate as soon as you receive your money. To this effect, you will send to us a promissory note for the donation Along with your address where you will like the box to be delivered to by the courier company.
Please maintain top most secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if found out that we are using this way to help you. You are advised not to inform anyone about this until you received your money.I Am helping you on this because something in me tells me that you are an honest person. When we conclude this and you send the donation, we will help to ship the final part of your money to you.
May God be with you and your family as I await your response either through reply email or by urgent phone call that you received my mail
Yours Truly
Rev.Father John Martins
Director ,Special Duties. IMF/WBG
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