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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: Thomas Mengi <tmengi2@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <tmengi19@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 22:12:13 +0000
Subject: From Thomas Mengi
Dearest One,
I hope this letter may not be a disturbance to you as i contacted you in good faith. Please excuse me for intruding into your private life. My name is Thomas Mengi, 19 years old from Sierra Leone, West Africa. I am the only son of Mr. John Mengi, who until his death worked under the Ministry of Mines and Industry of Sierra Leone – West Africa. You might be aware of the political war in my country, Sierra Leone. During the beginning of the war in my country my father sustained serious bullet wounds from the rebel forces on his way to his office in the capital city of Freetown. It was the United Nations peace keeping forces that
rescued him and he later died in a private hospital. When the news got to me i immediately rushed to the hospital where he was receiving treatments. Before his death he told me about some money he kept in a bank in Abidjan, Cote d Ivoire. The money is US$3.2Million. He deposited the money and put my name as his next of kin in his bank papers. He told me in case he died of the bullet wounds i shouldn't stay back in Sierra Leone. I should go to Cote d'Ivoire and look for a trustworthy person who will be my investment partner that can help me
in good investments and to live happily in any country of my choice because of my under age and inexperience in life. He finally died and i was left alone because my mother had died of cancer of the breast when i was only 11 years old. So presently i have managed to come to Cote d Ivoire after going through many difficulties and have located the bank. The bank advised that i should present to them my investment partner or guardian before they could release the money to us as contained in my father’s deposit papers with them. That is why I contacted you. Please i want you to become my investment partner or guardian by helping to see that this money be transferred into any of your safe bank account in your country for good investments and to enable me to come over and stay with you to finish my education peacefully. I will need your best advice on how to invest this money. I want to also buy a house when the money gets to your account where i will live. My father told me it is dangerous for me to make use of the money in and around my country, Sierra Leone to avoid any suspicions and that is why i want to come to your country. I will offer you 15% of the total money for your kind consideration and sincere assistance.
Sincerely yours,
Thomas Mengi.
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