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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: frank biko <frank_biko_8@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 02:27:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: VERY URGENT
From=Mr Frank Biko
42,independence Ave.
Accra Ghana.
Dear Sir,
REQUEST FOR MUTUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.
First, I must solicit your confidence in this
transaction. I am a highly
placed official working in the Ministry of
Agriculture, here in ACCRA,
GHANA, west Africa. My department (the treasury)
coordinates several
thousands of millions of dollars transactions monthly.
Myself and three other colleagues from this department
are currently in need
of a silent, foreign partner whose bank account we can
use to transfer the
sum of Eighteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S.
Dollars
(US$18,500,000.00). This funds accrued legitimately
(but discreetly) to us
as commission from a contract job awarded and executed
in here in
GHANA.
The money is presently waiting to be remitted by our
offshore funds managers
to any named beneficiary submitted by us to them as
the owner of the
payment. However, by virtue of our positions as civil
servants in our
country, we cannot acquire this money in our names. As
senior officers, we
are not allowed by the civil service code of conduct,
to own or operate bank
accounts outside of our shores. On the other hand, it
is not safe for us to
keep the money here due to our bad ecomony.
I have been delegated as a matter of trust by my
colleagues, to look for an
overseas silent partner, in whose account we would
transfer the
US$18,500,000.00 for mutual benefit, hence the reason
for this e-mail.
What I am requesting from you is: (1) To be our silent
partner and receive
the money in your account in trust. (2) Provide a
receiving bank account
under your control, to which the funds will be
remitted. (3) Receive the
funds in your account, take your commission and keep
the rest until I arrive
there to meet you after the transaction is completed.
Our proposal is that after you receive the funds, it
would be shared as
follows: (1) 25% to you as commission, while the
remaining 75% belong to us.
You will be free to take out your commission
immediately the money hit your
account. Since our objective is to invest the money in
a foreign country, it
would be ideal to let you manage this for us in your
country. However this
is optional, and should it not be convenient for you,
we can terminate our
cooperation after you hand over our share of the
money.
This transaction though discreet, is legitimate and
the money will be
transferred to your account with all necessary backup
documents showing
legitimate source/origin. The transfer will be
effected to your account
within seven working days of your furnishing us with a
suitable receiving
bank account informationand our reaching an agreement.
I plead with you on one issue, whether or not you are
interested, please do
not expose this information to a third party. I
confirm that the transaction
is legitimate and without any risks either of us.
Please give me your return email to confirm your
interest while keeping everything confidential.
Yours faithfully,
Mr frank biko
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