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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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From: union bank togolise union bank togolise <utb.togo@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:00:21 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: OFFICIALLY NEEDED URGENTLY-TO OUR LAW FIRM


Cancerlogy Unit
Brewaite Memorial Hospital
60 cathedral road
P.O.Box. 58
Atakpame- Togo.
rahman.moududur@yahoo.fr

Hello Kevin Bidinger, how are you and your health which is the most important thing to me?including your lovely family?

I believe you're doing well. I am writing to ask for your assistance in accomplishing a project that would benefit many people in the world.

I am Bro Rahman Moududur newly converted from islam to christainity from the United Arab Emirates, a petroleum engineer by profession and former contractor with the Ministry of Works, Republic of Togo. I was born and brought up in an Islamic family until I met my wife Mrs Aisha Moududur through whom I was converted from Islam to Christianity.


My late wife was the director of an institute in Indonesia before she died along with our only child in Indonesia occasioned by the tsunami wave disaster of 26th December 2004 though their body was not found but in every thing I give God thanks for Him alone knows all things.
I could not travel with them because I'm in a hospital where I'm receiving treatment for Lymphomas cancer and the doctor have declared to me that I have few weeks to live thus I decided to contact you so that you can stand in for me and my late wife to accomplish our desire which would benefit many people in the world since my wife and our only child are dead coupled with the fact that I am about to lose my life soon according to the doctors report.
Before the death of my wife and our only child, it was our desire to establish a charity foundation which would know as AHMED AISHA CHARITY FOUNDATION with my money totalling Forty seven million United States dollars (US$47,000,000.00 ) which I stored in a safe deposit box and deposited it with a security company for the intended project under the coverage of family treasures for safe keeping.

According to our desire, the mission of the foundation would be to do the followings:

1. To provide food for the hungry
2. To provide clothings to the naked
3. To provide water to the thirsty
4. To give education to the less priviledged
5. To help and care for prisoners
6. To help and care for the sick
7. To provide employment to the unemployed
8. To provide homes for the homeless
9. To help and care for orphans
10. To help and care for the aged
11. To help and care for widows
12. To help and care for the oppressed and the afflictated
13. To build talent and skill development centers
13. To help and care for victims of war


Therefore, in fullfilment of our desire, I have contacted you so that I can give the total money so that you stand in for me and my late wife to establish the charity foundation with it's head office in your country. The name of the charity foundation would be known as AHMED AISHA CHARITY FOUNDATION and it's mission would be to do the above listed.

This foundation would be managed by you according to your discretion and you're to use 95% of the total money for the establishment of the foundation and fullfilment of it's mission as indicated above while you keep the remaining 5% for your personal use as a gift from me and my late wife to you. Please be informed that every donation made by people, institution or organization to the foundation should be used to fullfil the mission of the foundation and not for any other use.

I would have handed over this project to my relatives to accomplish on behalf of me and my late wife but because my relatives who are all muslims abandoned me here in the hospital since the death of my wife to suffer alone and die without helping and caring for me due to the fact that I am no longer in Islamic faith with them, I concluded that if I hand over the project to them they will not faithfully accomplish it but would rather use the money for the personal use thus handing over this project to them is like pouring water into a basket that cannot hold water.


On your acceptance to stand in for me and my late wife to accomplish this project, I will send you the contact information of the security company where the safe deposit box is deposited and the relevant information relating to the deposit which you will use and contact the security company on my behalf asking them to deliver the safe deposit box to your location so that you can use the money in the box for the establishment of the foundation and fullfilment of it's mission.


I need your urgent reply to this mail at rahman.moududur@yahoo.fr
because I want to put everything in order before my death.


Remain blessed
Bro Rahman Moududur
rahman.moududur@yahoo.fr


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