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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: "EBONG EBONG" <dr_bb_ebong_03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dr_bb_ebong_01@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:50:30 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend
Dear Friend,
This short memo would certainly embarrass you due to the fact that we haven’t had any previous correspondence with each other. In spite of this, I will appreciate it if you will permit me to inform you of my desire to execute a deal with you, which will certainly be of a mutual benefit to both of us. I am Dr. B.B. Ebong of the Union Bank of Nigeria and a member of contract review panel of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
One of our contractors by name Engr. John Owen, who serviced a certain project for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) at the Porthacourt Refinery, lost his life on the September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center during the Terrorist Bombing organized by the al’queda network of Osama Bin Laden. This contractor had left Nigeria for his country to produce certain documents required of him forthe clearing of his funds, which was routed to his account in Wellsfargo Bank through the Petroleum Trust Fund account of the NNPC at our correspondent bank, the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS AG, ZURICH).
He however could not come back having met his sudden death on that trip. The allocated funds for his contract payment have been at the UBS AG ever since due to the fact that the documents were never received coupled with the fact that he does not have any dependant (Next-of Kin). I now have plans of claiming this funds (together with all accrued interests) if I can find an honest foreigner who would be presented as the next of kin to the diseased. My office has already forwarded our report to the Accountant General’s office with this claim one of those already settled. This goes to show that this deal is 100% risk free as the NNPC have already noted the claim as settled.
The amount in question is US$35M. The continue stay of this money with thebank in Zurich does not make any business sense. It does not also make any business sense allowing this money to be sent back to the Nigerian government treasury, not paid to anyone when there are millions of people out there who are suffering some high degree of untold hardship. I would want us to claim this money and donate a substantial part of it to Charity. The rest can then be equally shared between the both of us. As the chairman of Debt Reconciliation and Foreign Contract Payments committee of the NNPC, I know how best to achieve this goal without leaving any traces. More details on this plan (including documents relevant to this claim) shall be forwarded to you upon your acceptance to collaborate with me on this business opportunity of a lifetime. But please this deal must have to be conducted under a watertight (highly confidential) arrangement due to the sensitive nature of my official appointment.
GET BACK TO ME WITH YOU RESPONSE/OPINNION ON ISSUE.Once again, do accept my sincere apology if this proposal should offend you as a result of your moral or religious status. I simply believe that these funds should be retrieved and used in helping out many who are languishing in poverty and hunger.
Regards,DR. B.B. EBONG
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