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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: cynthia mamadou <cymmmahhad105@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <cymahd07@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:21:08 +0000
Subject: From: Miss Cynthia Mamadou
From: Miss Cynthia Mamadou
29-08-07.
20 Rue Avenue, Doubu,Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Greetings to you, Please be kind to us Your first reaction to this letter will be total rejection .but please give attention to it and accept our best wishes to you and your family.I am Miss Cynthia and My brother Mahdi Mamadou from Sierra Leone. we are orphans being that we lost our mother when we were still babies, and our father on 12th October, 2006. My father was serving as director of the Cocoa exporting board Abidjan, Ivory Coast until his death . He was poisoned by some undisclosed people who i greatly suspect to be his business associates during one of his outings. Before his death he deposit the sum of $8M USA Dollars in a Finance House and he left an instruction that the money is strictly for investments abroad and be given to my brother when he is upto 25 years or above because he is the next of kin as signed be my late father. Because of the hostile behaviour of my fathers brothers, and there constant threats to kill us, we had to run away , and it was on these situation that we contacted you .Our fathers brothers have taken our fathers car, and our house and because the are our elders, there was nothing we could do than to run for our dear lifes .i decided to make haste to see that these money is transfered to your account in your country so that we can leave these country before something bad happens to us. Even as we need a family to call our own, we want you to do us a favour to assist us transfer the money to your country as our Investor and guardian, who is going to assist us travel to your country and continue our education. we have plans to do investment in your country, like real estate and industrial production. This is our reason for writing to you. Please if you are willing to assist us, contact us via email and give us your full name, address, telephone, fax numbers and profession. we have mapped out 60% for ourself and 25% for your cordial assistance and 15% for charity to the less priviledged.Finally if you have any question as regards this transaction, please contact us. Please note that the confidentiality of this transaction would be highly appreicated, Please reply as soon as possible . Thanks and God bless you.Cynthia and Mahdi.jr
+22502405865
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