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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: "Bill Davidson" <bill_davidson24@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 12:50:17 -0600
Subject: I AWAIT YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE.
Good day,This letter is personal, intimate and confidential.
Forgive this unusual manner of contacting you, but this is the only option i have.There is no other way for me to know whether I will be properly understood, but I have to reach out to someone.
For I know that there will be one that can be
trusted.I am Mr.Bill Davidson, the financial adviser to my Late client.He used to bank with us here at First Consolidated Trust Bank.
He worked with Addax oil as a contractor .
I am writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.We discovered an abandoned sum of US$8.615million in his account. Mr.Kevin J.Knutson was our foreign customer who died along with his entire family of a wife and three children on April 2005 in a plane crash.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money as the benefactor, because we can not release the fund from his account unless someone applies for the claims as the next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Until his untimely death his name was Kevin J Knutson.
Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relations has appeared to claim the fund.
Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to make a deal with you and release the fund into your account as the heir of the money, since no one has come for it or discovered about the fund, this is why I need your assistance to stand as the next of kin so that the account will not be frozen or returned to the bank's treasury as an unclaimed fund.After the successful completion of this transaction,one of my colleagues and I will come to your country and collect our percentage and yours also will be given to you for assisting.
It is from our share we intend to import medical equipments into my country as a way of recycling the fund.
To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail to my private address[billdavidson02@yahoo.com]
Then enclose your private contacts telephone and fax numbers, your full name to enable us file a letter of claim to the appropriate department in the Ministry for necessary approvals before the transfer can be made easily.
Please, this transaction must be kept strictly confidential because of it's nature.
I await your immediate response.Regards.
Mr. Bill Davidson.
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