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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: "amina_kuma123" <amina_kuma123@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: amina_kuma12@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 03:25:11 -0700
Subject: Your Urgent Assistant Is Needed
Dear Sir/Madam
FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION:
In my careful search for an honest, reliable and sincere business partner, I got your contact from Internet and I ask if you can be trusted not to break an agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my mind to contact you and to offer you this proposal of mine of which my whole life depends on.
I am Mr Aminah Kuman, based in Beirut in Lebanon, i contact you for a little assistance you can render to me. Due to the situation here in Lebanon, those of us in the business circle are finding it very difficult to cope with the situation here, no stable government, bomb explosion strategic places every, now and then, sometimes people find it very difficult to go about their
normal businesses due to fear of being victim of terrorist attack,
above all, the crisis in Lebanon now has made business activities totally paralyzed for quite sometime now. For instance, no adequate security, all the basic Infrastructures were destroyed during the recent war in Lebanon, ever since then. The environment in Lebanon has never been conducive business wise.Please, why i need your assistance is that i have about (us$9.5m) Nine Million and five hundred thousand United States Dollar in my custody. I inherited the money from my late father who was a major general in Lebanon army in charge of purchase and maintenance in the immediate past regime. My intention is to move the money out of Iraq and invest the money in stock market or real estate in your country with the help of an honest person who will work with me as my foreign associate, i want to invest most of the money abroad to avoid losing the money, because it is not wise doing business in the atmosphere of fear here in Lebanon, thats why I am calling on you.If you can hones
tly collaborate with me, i am ready to pay you up to 15% of the total amount if you can sincerely assist me to actualize this project soon, because the situation here in Lebanon is very critical, the everyday bomb explosion seems to have no end. I wait patiently for your urgent response.please contact me through my email at amina_kuma12@yahoo.com <mailto:amina_kuma12@yahoo.com>
Best regards,
Mr Aminah Kuman.
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