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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: Sherif Sambo <sherif_sambov2@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:05:12 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE AND CNFIDENTIAL!!!
From: Sherif Sambo Address: Accra-Ghana,
Dear sir,
I am Mr Sherif, Accounts supervisor with International Commercial Bank, Ghana . I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On January, 2006, a Foreign Diamond consultant/contractor with the Ghana National Diamond Corporation, Mr. David Sluka, made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at USD$29,500,000.00, (Twenty Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After a month, I sent a reminder and finally I discovered from his contract employers, the Ghana National Diamond Corporation that Mr. David Sluka died from attack. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. David Sluka did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paper work in my Bank. This sum of USD$29,500,000.00 is in the Escrow Bank Account here in the Bank for safe-keeping. No one can ever come forward to claim it. According to Ghana law, at the expiration of 8 (eight) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Ghana Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.
Consequently, my proposal is that I want you as a Foreigner to stand in as the rightful owner of the money. It's deposited in Escrow Account. In the circumstance, I want to present you as the rightful owner of the deposit in the Bank so that you can be able to claim them with the help of my attorney. This is simple. I would like you to provide immediately your Full names, contact address as well as your direct Telephone number, so that I can put in Bank Computer Data, to prove you as the rightful beneficiary/next of kin to late out late client who made the deposit.
The money will be transferred to your nominated bank account in your country and share in the ratio of 50% for me and 40% for you, while 10% will be used to take care of every expense we might incur. There is no risk at all as all internal documentation will manager and retrieve by me and this will guarantees the successful execution of this transaction on your behalf, please reply immediately via my email address. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction and swing into the necessary action while I confide in you hoping you will not betray me at last.
sherif sambo
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