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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: "Tony Clark" <tony15clark@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tony22clark@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:30:43 +0100
Subject: URGENT
Former First Lady,
Republic of Liberia, West Africa)
I am Mrs. Jewel Howard Taylor, an Americo-Liberian by birth and wife of
embattled President of war torn Liberia, Mr. Charles Taylor. I am an
Economist by profession. My husband just stepped down as the President of
Liberia days ago, but matter were not helped when the UN special war crimes
court of Sierra Leone indicted my husband for war crimes in June this year,
demanding his prosecution. Currently, I and my husband have been
grantedassylum in Nigeria, but I relocated my two sons (Williams and Charles
Jnr.) immediately in July 2003 to Sao Tome and Principe ( a small oil rich
island off the coasts of West Africa)
They are currently in hiding there under new identities, awaiting the out
come of events in my country, and what will become of me and my husband in
asylum. The reason is this During the political crisis some years ago in
Sierra Leone ( a West African Country Rich in Diamonds), my husband was
actively involved. Early this year, he entrusted some large quantities of
diamonds to me. He told me if anything happened to him, I should use it to
take care of myself. Fearing its detection due to the volume, My son
(Williams) traveled to South Africa with the diamonds (on my instructions)
and sold them, netting a total of US$28,000,000.00 (Twenty Eighteen Million
US Dollars only). This money he moved into a South African safe house for
protective custody under a different name. Now, the south African Government
has refused issuing neither him nor my family any visa to travel to their
country again because of the current political situation.
This is why I need you to please either travel to South Africa to claim this
money and subsequently deposit same in a reputable bank there for onward
transfer to your account, or to instruct the safe house to move the funds
out of there to any of their correspondence banks or offices in London or
Europe, for onward transfer to your account. Once you are able to show your
sincerity, I will send the necessary correspondence and documentation
related to the transaction to you to affect this. I am
willing to forfeit 30% of the funds to you believing you will hold 70% on
trust for me and my two sons, until we are able to leave here to join you
under new identities. My first son Williams is 27years old (an Economist)
and Charles Jnr. is only 21 Years old. My Daughter Helen died in October
1999 from complications of Pneumonia. Please note that my husband is not
even aware that I sole the diamonds, nor does he know the whereabouts of the
funds. Once I am sure the funds are safely out of Africa, I will divorce him
and leave with my two sons to start a new life. If you cannot help us,
simply destroy this and forget I ever contacted you. May God guide you in
whatever you decide and thank you for taking out time to read this request,
Pls do get back to me with this private eamil address Email:
tony22clark@yahoo.com , Don't let this transaction down get back to me
immediatly.
Fondest Regards,
Mrs. Jewel H. Taylor
THIS IS MY PRIVATE NUMBER 2348030944146.
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