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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: "A.D.B. Gh." <williamatteh@excite.com>
Reply-To: etetteh500w@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 04:57:11 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Opporturnity to do business.
Hello,I am contacting you from Africa; my name is William Etetteh.A customer of my bank since 1988. He opened a domiciliary account with us in June 1988. The said bank account, which is at the moment in dormant, is in US Dollar and has credit balance of 10.3m$. Last transaction carried on the account dates back to September 15, 1999. I have been the account owner’s confidant, until above date when he was last seen in the bank. And since this time he has not been to the bank nor sent in cheque for clearing. This became a source of worry to me and prompted my personal investigation as to whereabouts and business activity of this customer. Result of my investigation revealed that he was into oil bunkering and operated within West and Central Africa sub-regions. Further investigation proved that he wasone of the victims of November 1999 raid of illegal oil bunkering merchants in Malabo Island of Equatorial Guinea.However, I continued my investigation and further discovered that a
UK telephone number mentioned in our bank information form, which he filled when the said bank account was established, belong to a hotel in London. This is a clear indication that he probably has fed my bank with false information to protect his illegal oil deals. I have not disclosed these findings to anyone else except this message to you. Then, after a careful study of the account file and available data to me, I have packaged a good deal as follows; and will wish to carry it out with you.My Friend, the deal here is that the money in this account will be approved and remitted to any foreigner who shows up as relation to the deceased person, provided such person has correct information to the account. I have such needed information and will hand it over to you as soon as we commence the transaction. I will source all necessary documents and forward them to you for direct submission to the bank. With my position as the foreign operations manager we will quietly remove this
money from the bank without hitches. I don’t have any problem in regularizing all necessary documents and transferring the credit balance of the said account to your nominated bank account in overseas, but the problem is trust. I have spent months in tryingto get an overseas reliable contact. It is worthy to note that people are unreliable these days and even derive joy in telling lies. On this ground I request your unreserved but sincere cooperation devoid of agreed in carrying out this transaction so that no one amongst both of us shall defraud each other at the end. I am prepared to split at 60% ---40% for you, provided that mine (60%) will be intact at the end.Waits for your expected co-operation.Best regards,Mr.William Etetteh.
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