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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: "mariam" <mabacha_221@excite.com>
Reply-To: chamariam@excite.com
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:21:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Read And Get Back To Me
Hello,It gives me great pleasure to contact you, and I do hope this letter will not come to you as a surprise. I am Mrs Mariam. s.Abacha, (the former Nigeria Military president /Head of state)who died mysteriously as a result of heart attack in the year1998. I decided to contact you so that we can arrange with you forfavorable term of trade and possibility of moving some family funds,to your possession.Since the death of my husband, our family and closedfriends have not been allowed to move freely by thepresent civilian government in Nigeria, because ofthe enemity that existed between the late Gen. Abacha and thepresent civilian president/Head of state of Nigeria.Consequently our joint bank accounts here in Nigeriaand abroad has been frozen in a very wicked manner,since the government discovered the accounts.You may wish to know thatright now our US645Million lodged with Swiss bank in Zurich andGeneva has been frozen since October 1999. Another huge amount ofmoney with a ban!
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in Luxembourg was blocked within April/may 2000. Wealso lost another US100Million lodged with a bank in the small countryof Liechtenstein.Our account with a Brazilian bank was frozen in 1999, another of ourjoint accounts in a Germany base bank account were allfrozen in 1999.This has made our family to have lost overUS$2Billion to the government.All these loses was mainly due to the fact that wemistakenly operated these account with Abacha'sfamily names and with our personal business names whichmade it possible for them to locate our funds easily in those bank. Forpartnership purpose, we decided to contact you in confidence toinform you that we have in our possession the certificate of thedeposit made by my late husband, which were funds that were secretly movedout of the country.These funds involve a total cash sum of US$32M(thirty two million united-state dollars only). which were hidden, andpackaged in a metal box and the box are presently being kept with a security deposi!
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house in Accra, Ghana as family valuables and thecertificate of deposit of the valuables is in our possession.We are appealing for urgent assistance to move the fund to your country/private or company bank account orany country where you believe the fund will be safe. As soon as the fund claimed,we will like to know how to arrange whereDr. Michael Ezeh will meet with you for the conclusion of thetransaction.Upon receipt of your response we will tell you howto recieve the fund and we shall arrange for aface-to-face meeting outside Nigeria with my confidentialsecretary/family business consultant (DR.MichaelEzeh) for a successful completion of the transaction. Wehave agreed to offer you 25% of the ($32,000,000 USD}thirty TWO MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARwhile you will hold 75% on TRUST for us as we wouldlike to do good business investment in your Country andalso invest in your company's lines ofproduct/business.Please you are required to treat this letter as veryconfidential as n!
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other person knows about thismoney except me, my son (Mohammed) your very self andDR.Michael Ezeh. I look forward to your earliest May God bless you as you help us at this difficulttime.Yours Sincerely,Mrs.Mariam.S.Abacha
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