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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: chima ali <a_alichima1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: chima_ali2004@excite.com
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:21:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Next of kin
Allison Chima
Union Bank of Nigeria,
Lagos.
Tel: +234 80 2313 7331
Dear
I am Allison Chima, a Director with Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. I have an urgent matter that requires your urgent attention.
It should also be handled with extreme confidentiality. In January of 2002, an expatriate oil and gas consultant with the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Mr. Edmund Miller, made a Fixed Deposit of Eleven Million, Nine Hundred and Eighty Thousand United States Dollars (US$7,980,000.00) for twelve calendar months duration in my branch.
Upon maturity we sent a routine notification in accordance with the Bank's policy to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After a month, we sent a reminder only to discover from one of his former domestic staff that Mr. Edmund Miller died in a Plane Crash in October of the same year.
(see:http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html). On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a Will and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless, as he never indicated his next-of-kin in any of his account opening and deposit documents with us.
His domestic staff told us that he never had a wife or children. Therefore, we became stalked, as there is no information to trace any member of his family abroad.
Mr. Edmund Miller's initial deposit and the accrued interest have since been lodged in a special sundry account in our bank. By the Statutory provisions of the Nigerian Fiscal Law, the money will be Deemed unclaimed and ownership shall revert to the government, if after six years no bonafide claimant comes forward with a title to the money. We are in the sixth year now, and there is no likelihood that any one will come for the money.
It is this reality that has prompted me to contact you, because only a foreigner can come up to lay claim to being Mr. Miller’s next-of-kin. I will personally cooperate with you and let you know the details of the man's estate and arrange a death certificate from the National Population Commission, which you will tender, with other vital documents belonging to Mr. Edmund Miller, which I will make available to you. That way, you will file an application for the release and transfer of the money to your account in your country.
Your application will be processed, accordingly, and it shall obviously be granted and the money remitted to you.
Once that is achieved, I will arrange to meet you, to sort everything out.
In the event that you are genuinely interested in the transaction, the following information would be needed from you to expedite action on the process:
1. Your Full Name and Address
2. Address of your receiving bank
3. Your Telephone and Fax numbers where you can be reached, regularly, because this transaction entails constant communication. The transaction is 100% risk free as all modalities have been perfected.
If you are positively disposed to cooperating with me, please send the requested information to me immediately.
I wait to hear from you.
My regards,
Alison Chima.Director Forex, Telex and exchange control department
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