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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: "Tom Lloyd" <lloyd_tom@btconnect.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:52:42 +0100
Subject: AN URGENT RESPONDS IS NEEDED
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TOM LLOYD CHAMBER
CARREFOUR DES 3 BANQUES
03 BP 2098 COTONOU,
REPUBLIQUE DE BENIN
EMAIL:tomlloydlawfirm@hotmail.com <http://us.f904.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=tomlloydlawfirm@hotmail.com>
Hello, Beloved
First,I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET.Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you,I am Barrister TOM LLOYD (ESQ), an attorney to Late Engineer Duke Creek. I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.
MY PROPOSITION
A foreigner, Late Engineer Duke Creek, an Oil Merchant/Contractor with the Republic Of Benin,here in Cotonou until his death in a ghastly car crash, on Tuesday, 25 October 2006, and befor the death of my late client,he had a balance of the sum of US$15.5Million (Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only) which the bank now unquestionably expects it to be claimed by any available foreign next-of-kin of the Late beneficiary.
Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the Bank to locate his next-of-kin without success and since I am his attorney, a letter was sent to me to provide his next of kin or relatives, which I tried but proved to no avail. It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of Late Engr. Duke Creek's next-of-kin he had no wife and children, that the reason why the management under the influence of the chairman and member of the board of directors, that the fund should be declared "UNCLAIMABLE" until the next-of-kin of late Engr .Duke Creek comes to claim the fund.
So I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next-of-kin to Late Engr. Duke Creek so that the funds would be released and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next-of-kin, and all documents and proves to enable you get this fund [US$15.5million] will be carefully worked out by me and more so i am assuring you of a 100% risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest would be for my self. I will now meet with you in your country to get what belong to me and I upon the completion of this transaction. pls i want you to Furnish me with your most confidential Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.
Yours at Law
Barrister Tom Lloyd [Esq]
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