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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: "mrs mary parker" <mary_parker207@myway.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:23:57 -0800
Subject: Dear Beloved Friend,
Dear Beloved Friend,
SAVE SOME SOULS FOR THE KINGDOM.
It is by the grace of God that I received Christ, having
known the
truth; I had no choice than to do what is lawful and just in
the sight of
God for eternal life and in the sight of man for witness of
God & His
Mercies and glory upon my life.
I am Mrs. Mary Parker, the wife of Mr. Robert Parker, my
husband
worked with the Chevron/Texaco in Kenya for twenty years
before he
died in the year 2003. We were married for ten years without
a child.
My Husband died after a brief illness that lasted for only
four days.
Before his death we both got born-again and dedicated
Christians. Since
his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside
my matrimonial
home which the Bible is strongly against. When my late
husband was
alive he deposited the sum of US$7.5 Million (Seven Million
Five Hundred
Thousand U.S.Dollars) with a Bank in Europe.
Presently, this money is still with the Bank and the
anagement just
wrote me as the beneficiary that our account has been
DORMANT and
if I, as the beneficiary of the funds, do not re-activate
the account; the
funds will be NFISCATED or I rather issue a letter of
authorization to
somebody to receive it on my behalf (note that you need to
activate
this account) as I can not come over.Presently, I’m in a
hospital in Kenya
where I have been undergoing eatment for esophageal cancer.
I have since
lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I
have only a few
weeks to live.It is my last wish to see this money
distributed to charity
organizations anywhere in the World. Because relatives and
friends have
plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot
live with the
agony of ntrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.
Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me Stand-in as
the
beneficiary and collect the Funds from the Bank. I want a
person that is
God-fearing who will use this money to fund churches,
orphanages and
widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the
house of God
is maintained.
The Bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand
that giventh.
I took this decision because I don’t have any child that
will inherit
this money and my husbands elatives are not Christians and I
don’t
want my husband’s hard arned money to be misused by
unbelievers. I
don’t want a ituation where this money will be used in an
ungodly manner.
Hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I am not
afraid of
death since I know where I am going to. I know that I am
going to be
in the bosom of the Lord. {Exodus14 VS14} says that the lord
will fight my
case and I shall hold my peace. I don’t need any telephone
communication
in this regard because of my soundless voice and presence of
my
husband’s relatives around me always. I don’t want them
to know about this
development.
With God all things are possible.
Beloved one, please send all replies to my email:
mary_parker207@myway.com
Your Sister in Christ,
Mrs. Mary Parker.
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