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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: "MR: Felix Johnson" <felix_johnson_001_@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: felix_johnson_01@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:15:48 +0000
Subject: GOD BLESS YOU
ATTN: Dearest Partner,
I MAKE THIS APPEAL WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT ANY FACTS OR OPINION EXPRESSED BY ME ARE GIVING IN CONFIDENCE AND SOLELY FOR YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATIONAND USE.
I am MR. Felix Johnson the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of my Bank. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of US$6.5M,(SIX Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) with account number 14-2558-5976 that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died in a plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight number 261 which crashed on 31 January, 2000. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this sites
www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
www.greatdreams.com/plane261.htm
The owner of this account is Mr. Larry Baldridge Jr, an American,living in Novato,
California and was a savvy businessman. It s therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and for our bank to release the money to you. You have to follow the instruction which I will send to you as the next ofkin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into our bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The banking law and guidelines here
stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Three years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The money has now stayed more than three years and I am preparing documentaion to prove that this money has been transfered to our banktreasury. It will be between me and you only that will know that the money is not transfered into our treasure.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this transaction is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Senegalese cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. In appreciation of your assistance, I am offering you 30% of the
total sum. 5% for contingencies (cost of transfer/other charges) likely to be incurred during the course of transaction, while the remaining 65% is for me.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the
application which you will complete and forward to our bank asking for this money to be paid to you as the next of kin to Mr. Larry Baldridge Jr. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this mail
through the above email.
PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY
SHOULD YOU CONSIDER MY URGENT REQUEST.
Yours Faithfully,
MR.Felix Johnson
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