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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: "MAMMUD Abdul" <reach.abdul1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: reachkhal@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:50:18 +0100
Subject: Reach Me
Good Day,
I will give you the name of my bank and other important information
if I receive a positive reply from you.
For security I cant disclose my full identity to you until I am sure
of your cooperation .
I work in the operations department where I serve as
an account officer to many customers.
One of the customers whom I worked as his account officer was a
wealthy diamond merchant from
neighboring Sierra Leone. He had lost his family during the during the
Sierra Leone war and had managed to escape to this country with his wealthy
intact.
Unfortunately he died last year. Because of his goodness to me when he
was alive, I took it up myself to travel to his country last month to
see if can locate any of his close relations. on reaching there I
discovered that his only surviving uncle died a few months back. I
sponsored this trip on my own and nobody in the bank knew I undertook
this
journey because I did not present any official report based on it.
Now there are two things I can do with regards to the dead man's
money. First as his account officer I could formally notify the bank
authorities that the man is dead and has no next of kin. In this case
the
money would be forfeited to the government after sometime. As a matter
of
fact this is the proper thing I am supposed to do. Another option is to
arrange for someone else, a foreigner to act as the next of kin of the
late man so that he will claim the money. This option that I can take
to help anybody and myself since the money came from public fund in his
country. Actually he was a close ally to the late brutal military
president that looted the government treasury to his fill. This is the
reason why I have chosen to do it and want you to be my partner to
realize my aim. All we have to do is to present you as the next of kin
of
the dead man and with my expreience we can Claim this Money. As the
accounts officer of the dead man I have all the necessary information
about
the Account that you will require to claim the money in the account. The
total amount in the account is US$15 million (15,000,000). Your share
will be 40% of the money, which is US$6,000,000 while mine will be
60%..
Reach me immediately by mail so that I can give you further details.
Truly
Mammud.
For personal reasons Please reply to reachkhal@yahoo.com
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