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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: SONGO JOSEPH <joseph_songo6@hotmail.fr>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:08:04 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GREETINGS_FROM_JOSEPH_SONGO=FE?=
From Mr.Joseph SongoThe Manager of Audit & Account Department, BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso. Dear Friend, Please read carefully, This is secret and confidential. I hope that you are well today.I am the Manager of Audit and account dept of our bank,with due respect i decided to contact you over this business financial transaction worth the sum of NINTEEN MILLION,THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ( ($19,300,000.00)) in other to entrust this fund into your bank account. This is an abandoned fund that belongs to the one of our bank customers who died along with his entire family on 31th July,2000 in a plane crash disaster. Website ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm )I was very fortune to meet the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files of 2000-2001 in other to submit to the bank managements accordingly for documentation purposes. Following our banking financial policy,it was obviously indicated and signed lawfully that if such money remains unclaimed after Seven years without somebody been a relation apply and claim the fund as the next of kin,the money will be transferred into the Bank Treasury as an unclaimed fund. The management under the influence of our chairman and members of the board of directors,that arrange has been made for the fund to be declared"unclaimed"and subsequently be donated to the trust fund for arms and ammuniation to further enhance the course of war in africa and the world in general. In order to avert this negative development some of my trusted colleagues and i now seek your permission to have you stand as the next of kin to!LATE ENGR. DAHLIG MITCHELL (SNR.) so that the fund US$19.300,000,00 MILLION will be released and paid into your norminated bank account as the beneficiary's next of kin.all document and proves to enable you get his fund will be carefully worked out.we have secure from probate an order of madamus to locate any of the decaesed beneficiaries,and more so we are assuring you that this business is 100%risk free involvement. So the request of you as a foreigner is necessarily needed for this claim because a citizen of Burkina Faso cannot come forward to claim the fund since the law does not permit an indigene to claim such fund Since the real beneficary of the fund is died , the bank are expecting the next of kin to apply for the release of the fund for him or her without delay but unfortunately i learnt through the investigations which I carried out that there is nobody behind who can come and claim the fund. Therefore i want you to assist and apply to the bank with your reliable bank account details where our bank will transfer the fund into and immediately the fund is transferred into your account ,i will share the fund according to the percentage indicated below. I have decided the sharing as following: -On the transfer of this fund into your account, will be your share in respect of the account provision and your assistance rendered during the transfer of the fund into your bank account,{ 52% } being (US$10,036,000.00) will be my share being the codinator and the pillar of the transaction while the rest { 9% } being (US$1,737,000.00) will be shared to the respectable Organisations Centers such as Charity Organisation, Motherless Babies homes, and helpless disabled people in the World. Thereafter you will help me to visit your country for sharing the money according to the percentage indicated above. And for the immediate transfer of this fund into your bank account as arranged,you must apply first to the bank as the only existing next of kin to the deceased customer and after approval which will take place immediately as you applied,the transfer of the fund into your nominated bank account will proceed. Please note that you should keep this business as Top Secret until you confirm the transfer into the bank account which you will provide. And there is NO RISK in this business if you can be following my instructions as an insider here in the bank. The bank will forward to you all necessary documents related to the transfer and which will prove that you make a legal claim of inheritance. And i want you to assure me solemnly that you are a trsutwothy,reliable,honest and capable to avoid cheating me in this business.If you are really sure of your integerity, Reply through my private email dr.ronoh@yahoo.fr immediatelly you receive this mail for more detailed information on how to process the transfer of the fund into your account will be.Am looking forward hearing from you hearing from you. Yours faithfully, Mr.JOSEPH RONOH SONGO
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