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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: edward doris <doris_edw7@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:09:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: LL FOR ASSISTANCE
CALL FOR ASSISTANCE;
dorris_edw7@yahoo.com
DEAR SIR,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or nwritten before. Introducing myself, I am Miss Dorris Edward 24 years of age the only child of the late Mr and Mrs EDWARD Willams. My father was a Gold and cocoa merchant based in Accra, Ghana and Abidjan(Ivory Coast), he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips.Before the death of my father on 29th June 2003 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has a sum of USD$2.5M (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S),deposited in a security company here (Abidjan Côte dIvoire, that he used my name as his only child for the next of kin in depositing the BOX.He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice
where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as expansion of his existing cocoa business and real estate management here, on how best to transfer this money to overseas please.I am humbly seeking your assistance in the following ways :1- To assist me in pressurising the security company to transfere the box to you and quietly be transferred into your account.2- To serve as the guardian of this fund since I am still in the university.3- To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to help me secure a residential permit in your country. Moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this box to your country overseas, while 5% will be set aside to offset any expenses we may incur. Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within the shortest possible time if
you signify interest to assist me.NB : Please contact me immediately you receive this message through this email address if you
are interested.(dorris_edw7@yahoo.com)
God bless you,
As I await your reply.
Yours sincerely
Dorris Edward.
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