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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: Rebecca Bello <rebeccabllao@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <rebeccabllo@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 22:40:38 +0100
Subject: REQUEST FOR BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP
FROM: REBECCA BELLO
UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC
36/38 MARINA LAGOS
REQUEST FOR BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP
I am Rebecca Bello, a manager with the Union Bank Nigeria Plc. In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$22 million (twenty two million United States dollars only) in a domiciliary account belonging to one of our foreign customer Dr. Jack L. McCallum. an American oil consultant/contractor who died in a Kenya airways plane crash along with his family in March 1997.
Ever since we were informed of there deaths, we have been expecting his next of kin to come and claim his money as it cannot be released unless someone applies as the next of kin as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately we learnt that the supposed next of kin died of shock, leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is in this development that some key officials and I in my department have decided to make deal with you, so as to present you as the next of kin of the deceased to our bank, for the money to be released for our mutual benefit and disbursement, since nobody has come forward for claim, and we do not want this money to be recycled into the banks bounded account as an unclaimed fund.
The request for a foreigner as the next of kin in this business is as a result of the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as his next of kin. We have agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as remuneration for partaking in the deal.
Thereafter, we would want you to advise us on the best area of investment because we are considering investing the greater proportion of our share in your country. Therefore to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund to you as it has been arranged; please kindly indicate your interest for further details.
As soon as you receive this mail, do contact me on my private E-mail address:rebeccabllo@yahoo.com.
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Best regards,
Rebecca Bello
Manager
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