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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: mariam catulo <maria_catulo75@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mme.mariam-catulo@royal.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:26:20 +0000
Subject: Mrs. Mariam Ernestina Catulo {urgent & strictly confidential}
Sir/Madam
This mail might be seen as a surprise and confusing to you but you must know that it is real and had to be kept confidentially or erased immediately if you are not interested or you know deep in your conscience that your are not capable of handling or respecting its confidentiality.
My name is Mrs Miriam Ernestina Catulo .I come from the Republic of Angola. I am now 51 years old. I was married to late Mr João Pedro Hassan Catulo who worked for fifteen years with the Marine de Guerre Angolaise (MGA) founded on July 10th, 1976 .He was also the Chief of protocol of the chief of general staff of this branch of Angolan arm forces, l`Amiral Feliciano Dos Santos " Paxe ", before he died on the July 28th, 2002. He died after a brief illness which only lasted four days.
We were married for eleven years without children because I was diagnosed with cancer of the uterus. We later adopted two children, a boy and a girl from the motherless baby home but unfortunately they both died of HIV/AIDS. Based on all this problems, I decided not to remarry or further any adoption programme after the death of my husband. My late husband deposited the sum of $6.8 Million American dollars (Six millions Eight hundred thousand American dollars) in a Bank in London,England. (Name of the bank withheld for security reasons.)
To be more explicit, just before his death he revealed to me that this money was the percentage he received for his involvement and participation in the diversion of a huge sum of money budgeted by the Angolan Government for the purchase of military equipments,tanks and other military hardware from China and Russia for the Marine de Guerre Angolaise (MGA) in the beginning of the year 2003.
I have decided to give this fund to a foreign humanitarian organization or a trustworthy person strictly outside African continent that will use this fund in accordance to my instructions and directions.
I am now seeking for a foreign humanitarian organization or a trustworthy person, who will invest this fund for the research for the cure of cancer and HIV/AIDS, also to assist children suffering from these diseases.
I made this decision for two reasons: Firstly, because I have no child who could inherit this fund and unfortunately my late husband relations never welcome my marriage to him, even after his death they are still against me.Secondly,because the doctors has already given me few more weeks to live.
As soon as I receive your response I would send you the contact of this Bank in England. I shall also send you the proof of fund deposit which will prove to you that I am the actual beneficially of this fund.
Do also send me your personal informations, your age,profession,nationality,contact address, including your telephone number so that I can get back to you.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Mariam Ernestina Catulo
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