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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: martin martin <ellganao9@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <esqmartinfreeman@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:15:51 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE
Mr Martin FreemanFirst Investment Bank Plc,41 Lothbury,London, EC2P 2BP,United Kingdom.Dear friend, You may be surprised to receive my letter. However, I got your contact as a result of my desperate desire for assistance. Though this mail is unsolicited, I pray you to be humane and consider it. I have decided to contact you for confidential, urgent and rewarding joint business. I am Martin Freeman Branch Manager, First Investment Bank Plc. In January 2002, one of my customer (foreigner) who is a consultant/General contractor here in United Kingdom, made a numbered time Fixed) Deposit, valued at $11,500,000.00 (Eleven Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), for twelve (12) calendar months in my Bank branch. Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his home address but got no reply.I have since then made several enquiries to his Embassy as his accounts officer in a bid to locate any relation of my client and these efforts of mine have not been productive for over five years now,finally we discovered from his contact employers that he is no longer on earth as he died in a car accident along with all members of his family .Hence the need to get someone to assist me in securing the money and property left behind by my client before they are declared as unclaimed and unserviceable by the bank where they have been lodged for safekeeping. This is because my Bank has just issued a notice to me, unequivocally instructing me as his accounts officer to produce the Next of Kin/Beneficiary to the said account within the next ten official working days, or have the account confiscated. Considering my lack of success in my bid to locate his relatives for so long and with the fact that the bank would claim this funds that they did not work for or suffer with my late client to get,i solicit your consent to enable me produce you as a distant relative /Next of Kin to my deceased client and the funds will then be transferred to you as the beneficiary and shared according to a proposed sharing pattern we both agree on. We will provide to the bank all the necessary legally obtained documents that the bank might require to back up any claim we make regarding this process,and will just require your understanding and cooperation to enable us achieve success within a legitimate arrangement,eliminating any liability resulting from any breach of the prevalent laws. Your urgent response will be highly appreciated and i would appreciate it if you keep this deal strictly confidential . If this proposal interest you, please include Your private phone and Fax number, full contact address,Your country, date of birth and occupation for the legal documentation of the said fund. Thank you. Best Regards, Martins Freeman (Esq)
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