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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: "Engr.Onyami Adum" <engr_onyami2001@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: engr_onyamitg@excite.com
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 16:53:45 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Urgent Responce Needed,.Judith
From:Onyami Adum,
Good Day,
With due respect, please pardon me for contacting you. This is a genuine matter of utmost importance and immense mutual benefit which must be kept highly confidential. It is with genuine interest and trust that I have contacted you..in search for a credible person or company overseas for joint business venture.
I am Engr.Onyami Adum,The Manager Agricultural Development Loan Scheme of the Agricultural Development Bank, Accra, Ghana. I am writing you from my office that will be of an imense benefit to both of us. In my department,being the Manager (Greater African Regional Office), I discovered an abandoned sum of $5.2 million USA Dollars (Five million Two hundred thousand Us Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr.Thompson Morrison American citizen who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.
The choice of contacting you is aroused from the geographical nature of where you live, particularly due to the sensitivity of the transaction.and the confidentiality herein. Now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives/business partner to come-up for the claim but nobody has done that.I personally has been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for 2 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin /Will Beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at 5.2 Million Dollars can be paid to you.
This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages,60% to me and 40% to you. I have secured all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up this claim we are making. All i need is to fill in your names to the ducuments and legalise it in the court here to prove you as the legitimate beneficiary. All I require now is your honest Co-operation,Confidentiality and Trust to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law.
Please,provide me the following: as we have 14 days to run it through. this is very URGENT PLEASE.
1. Full Name
2. Your Telephone Number
3. Your Contact Address.
Having gone through a methodical search, I decided to contact you hoping that you will find this proposal interesting. Please on your confirmation of this message and indicating your interest will furnish you with more information. Endeavor to let me know your decision rather than keep me waiting.
Your urgent response will be highly anticipated and appreciated.
Best regards,
Engr.Onyami Adum,
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