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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: BALAKOV VLADIMIR <balakovv5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <blkv_vldmr@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:06:19 +0100
Subject: Dear Van, your reply please.
From the table of
Mr. Balakov Vladimir
20 Park Road,
Bristol BS 25LJ,
England.
Dear Van,
ALREADY FULFILLS TRANSACTION [CONFIDENTIAL]
I am making this contact with you in good faith. I got your E-mail address from the Foreign Department in our Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office. I am working with the bank where the funds are deposited which will be review to you upon your respond. My purpose of writing you is to ask for your assistance to provide a virgin bank account or your account that contains little or no money where we can successfully secure the sum of $7.1 million (Seven million One hundred thousand united states dollars). For your information, there is one business merchant and his name is Mr. Van.
He collapse in a beach when taken a walk closes to the riverbank on a Sunday afternoon in 2003. He was banking with my bank and I' m his accounting officer.
However, since his death, I have been trying to contact any of his relative, to let his people know about his money in our bank but I cannot find anybody. I later remembered that Mr. Van came to my country out of shame. This secret he revealed to me when he was alive. Now I have decided to link anybody to stand as next of kin in order to claim the money he deposited here as Fixed Solid Investment since nobody knew about it. Note that there is no risk involved in this transaction, as I will give you all information you may need about the bank contact to enable you stands as his next of kin to receive this money into your account. I will give you guidance
This transaction will go through normal banking process and I will direct you on how to apply for the claims of this money. Please if you are interested reply me. I will require the following information from you for procession of the fund in your favor.
1. Your private phone and fax number.
2. Your home address. I personally need your home, address because I do not know you too well before now only that I decided to work with you on trust,
Note that we can conclude this transaction within 2 weeks upon your compliance in applying for the claims to our Head Office, as I will direct you on what to do. Be duly informed that I will be resigning from this banking work to come over to your country after the transfer of this fund to your account. I will then engage myself in international business since we will have enough money for any kind of business after this transaction. You need not to be afraid because in as much as I am here. We will have the money sheared the same percentage.
I am waiting for your urgent response.
Best regards,
Balakov Vladimir
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