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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: "kenneth"<princekenbedie01@myway.com>
Reply-To: princekenbedie@o2.pl
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:21:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Form Bedie's Family
From: The Desk of: Prince Ken Konan Bedie C/B 125 Merie Zogbo, Cotonou, Republic du Benin Email : princekenbedie@o2.pl
Good Day,
I sincerely regret any incovinence/embarrasement your reading from an unknown person like me may cause you. However, I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail.
My family got your contact through your country's International Chamber of Commerce (I.C.C). We decided to contact you for a mutual business relationship. My name is Ken Konan Bedie. I am the son of His Excellency Henri Konan Bedie, who was the President of Cote D'Ivoire from 1993 to 24th Dec. 1999 when the military junta led by Gen. Robert Guei toppled his Government. When my father's Government was toppled, my entire family was driven into exile. While my parents lived in France, I lived with my siblings in Cotonou, Republic du Benin. However, through an amnesty granted to my father by the incumbent president, Mr. Laurent Gbagbo, my father returned back from exile in France on 15th Oct 2001.
Meanwhile, when my father was in power, I was working as his special aid and was coordinating his private businesses in Africa and abroad. We had many deposit accounts with different financial institutions in Europe and Africa. Unfortunately for my family, the military Government of Gen. Robert Guei that toppled my father's Government got wind of some of the deposit accounts and in a swift action frozen 11 (eleven) of the accounts in 9 (nine) banks in Switzerland and Luxembourg. The effect of this and ousting from power of my father within a very short period of time was devastating to my family.
All the while, we have lived under very critical financial conditions with absolute resolve not to do anything that can led the present Government in my country to confiscate this remaining account which the military did not discover. Now that the searchlight of Government has moved away from my family, we have decided to make moved to change the identity of the account. This is the reason why we decided to contact you.
I have the mandate of my father to contact you and request for your assistance to my family, by helping us to secure this remaining deposit we have with a financial institution in Ghana, which amounts to U.S.$45 million (Forty-five million U.S. Dollar). This is aimed at making it impossible for the Government in my country to know about this fund. My family will be pleased if you can accept to hold this fund in safe keeping by receiving it from the financial institution on our behalf and by accepting to change the name and signatory of the account into your own. This will eliminate any link between my family's name and this fund and permanently keep it from the knowledge of my country.
My family will want to invest whatever is our own share of this money after you must have collected the one due to you in your company or any other blue-chip company in your Country under your care and management.
I will furnish you with details of this transaction if you accept to assist. We will discuss your remuneration when you reply.
Reply to this my confidential email address: princekenbedie@o2.pl
I on behalf of Bedie's family, wish you and your family a Happy and prosperous new year.
I look forward to your early response.
Prince Ken Konan Bedie.
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