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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: sunny ofene <sunnyofene4u@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:22:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: your asist
Good day to you.
Dear friend. You may be surprised to received this
letter from me because you
dont know me in person , I am sunny ofene,the
first and only son of late Mr William ofene,
who was murdered in the land dispute in
Zimbabwe, I was furnished
of your profile from your country web site I decided
to contact you. Before the
death of my father, he had taken me to Accra,Ghana to
deposit the sum of
US$12,000,000 (TWELVE MILLION US DOLLAR), in a
private security and
Finance company, as if he foresaw the looming danger
in Zimbabwe. This amount
was meant for the purchase of chemicals and tractors
for the development of our
new farms in Swaziland. This land problem came when
the Zimbabwean President MrROBERT MUGABE introduced a new land reform act, which
wholly affected the rich
white farmers and some black farmers. This result
to
killing and mob action by
Zimbabwean war veterans and some lunatics in the
society, A lot of people have
been killed because of this land-reform act, which my
father is one of them.
You can look up to CNN news every day for what is
happening in the country, if
you are in doubt, you can also go to the internet to
www.dailynews.co.zw,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2414713.stm,
http://news.bbc .co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1870851.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2568545.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1966949.stm
it is against this backdrop that me and my mother who
are currently in Accra,Ghana
decided to transfer our fathers money to any foreign
account since the Accra
Ghana law prohibits refugees(asylum seekers) to
operate any type of bank account
or to be involved in any huge financial transaction.
As the eldest child of my
father, I am seeking for a genuine foreign partner
who can help us transfer
this money in to his or her oversea account. On the
other hand, the Accra,Ghana
government seems to be playing along with them. We
are therefore faced with the
dilemma of investing this money in Accra,Ghana for the
fear of going through the
same experience in future, since both countries have
similar political history.
As a business man whom I will entrust my future and
that of my entire family in
his or
her hands , I must let you know that this
business is completely 100%
risk-free. As we cannot accept to venture into any
dangerous deal with our
fortune, if you therefore accept to assist us, which
I know that you will.
Please I will like you to contact me urgently. Feel
free to ask all questions
you deem necessary. For your assistance , we have
proposed two options for you.
(1)You may go into partnership with me for the proper
profitable investment of
the money in your country. (2)If you do not prefer a
partnership, I am willing
to give you 15% of the sum while the remaining 80%
will be for my family prior
for investment in your country, while the remaining
5% will be used to defray
all the expenses that may incure during the process
of this transaction. You
are therefore required of absolute confidentiality of
this matter.
God bless you.
Yours truly,
sunny ofene
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