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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: aliu mustafa <aliumustafa_283@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <aliumustafa21@jmail.co.za>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 18:05:01 +0200
Subject: From Aliu And Mary Mustafa
>From Aliu And Mary MustafaDear Respected One, Permit me to inform you of our desire of going into business with you. We got your contact details via a concerted web search. Please pardon me for this act of invasion of your privacy. We had no alternative but to approach you in this manner because of the urgency of the issue at hand. Time is of utmost importance and we are desperately looking for someone to assist us in this confidential, lucrative but risk-free business. I am Aliu Mustafa the son of late Dr. Malik Mustafa from Sierra Leone.My late father happens to be in control of a large number of farmsIncluding cattle s and many sheep before he was poisoned by hisForeign business partners in Paris with my mother in one of theirFarmers association meeting because of greed. But before h is death he deposited some amount of money outside ourCountry in a finance security company in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire in West African country at the tone of Two Million One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars $2,100.000.00. So I and my little sister were no longer safe here as the present government of Sierra Leone are working with almost all the killers of my late father and were looking a way to kill us too as one of them has just been made a minister. Furthermore we have contacted the finance security company where theMoney was deposited and the manager made us to understand that ourLate father signed an agreement with the finance security companyThat the total money must be transferred into his foreign businesspartner account undisclosed to them , because of this reason the money will not be released to us until the foreign partner of my late father comes for the claim of the money or we should present to them the partner of our late father and that is the major reason why we amContacting you for assistance so that you can contact the financeSecurity Company as my late father's foreign partner. If you have accepted and willing to help us, please when replying send the following:-Your full namesAddressPersonal email address,Telephone and fax numberOccupation andAge.We need the above to write a formal letter to the finance securityCompany introducing you as the father's business partner. Please kindly get back to me immediately after you must have goneThrough my message fill free and make it urgent because we are in aVery difficult situation now. We have agreed offer you 20 % of theTotal money amount, if you accept to help us transfer this money andIn case of any necessary expenses you might incur during thisTransaction.For more explanation. write me through my alternative e-mail address (aliumustafa21@jmail.co.za) We are really hoping to hear from you soonest and it will be ourGreatest joy to know that you have accepted and willing to handle this transaction till the end.Thanks and God bless you and your family. Best regardsAliu and Mary Mustafa
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