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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: "goodluck_smon@terra.es" <goodluck_smon@terra.es>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:06:51 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Business Benefit
I want to believe that this letter found you in good health. My contact to you today is very confidential and I hope you treat it as such. I need an urgent and confidential business co-operation from you to the benefit of both of us
My name is Mr. Simeon Goodluck, a financial consultant based in Nigeria. I am a personal financial consultant to an alien, who was a Seasoned Oil Contractor in the African region; who unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africaines Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou, Benin republic on the December 25, 2003.
You will read more about the crash by visiting this website
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash
During his Lifetime, I assisted him in maintaining a family deposit account with a local Finance and Security Company, here in Nigeria in the amount of USD $25,000,000.00 which is under my control as his financial adviser. There was an arrangement between us, which gave me, power to transfer after every period the accrued interest on the deposit to an offshore account in his country. This I have been doing while he was alive. Three months ago the interest accrued again and I tried to transfer it as I used to do but I found out that his offshore account is no longer active. My investigation and a review of the account opening file revealed that his supposed next of kin died along with him in the crash.
Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of his extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. Particularly, the Finance and Security Company has issued me with a notice to provide any of his beneficiaries or have the account confiscated within a short period of time.
I decided to contact you so that I can use my official capacity to attest that you are the bona-fide next of kin so that approval will be given for the release and transfer of the money to an account you will nominate before the fund will be confiscated should they found out that the next of kin is no more.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law. If my request is acceptable to you, kindly respond back to me and do let me know. I am proposing 40% for you and 60% for me.
Remember that it is confidential. Respond through my secure private email address: goodluck.simeon@yahoo.co.uk
I expect to hear from urgently.
Sincerely,
Mr. Simeon Goodluck
TERRA
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