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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: Lindsey Marti <lind_mart01@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: lin_mart01@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:02:40 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From Miss Lindsey Marti
Miss Lindsey Marti
uAddress:Calle Céspedes #17,esquina a Plácido,
Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
Email: lin_mart01@yahoo.com
Hello,
My name is Lindsey Marti, and I am writing you from my home in Santa Clara, about 165 miles east of Havana, the Capital City of Cuba. Santa Clara is known for two landmarks; The famous Revolutionary, Che Guevera is buried here; and it is home to one of Cuba's largest universities, La Universidad Central "Martha Abreu" de Las Villas.
This is a compelling story, and I beg you to be patient and read through to the end…I was adopted in 1983, at the age of 14 months by Mr. Gregory Marti,the Sugar and tobacco millionaire; some say he also made his fortune from the lucrative illicit drugs trade.
My adoption brought so much controversy (probably because I am black and a deaf), that Mr. Marti was forced by his family to put me into a foster home at age 5 ,where I stayed until maturity; Like most Cuban youths, I dreamt of freedom, which every one here knows is called America; like most youths, in time, I joined an
Anti-Castro group and that merited automatic 24 hours round the clock surveillance by the Secret Police, but this is also normal in Cuba!
Mr. Marti, my father nevertheless funded my education properly...Sadly, he died in 2002; left only his wife and family (he died childless), and I was not invited to his funeral by his family, but I mourned him deeply; I had no memory of my real father; but I loved him for his kindness to me; he frequently defied his family to visit me.....His Last Will and testament was read and probated. No mention was made of me. Understandably, I carried on with my life.
Two weeks ago, I received a letter from Ivory Coast, from a private Security deposit firm, and the contents of that letter put me into shock! I kept the letter for a week without mentioning it to anybody.Apparently My late father, Mr. Marti had provided for me after all! Mr.Gregory Marti had bought shares worth about 10 Million USD in 1998,and left it in my name; over time, My father bought more shares and increased the shareholding to USD30 million!( I am made to understand that the current market value is
far in excess of this figure). The letter explained that according to the terms and agreement reached with my late father, the shares were to be delivered to me (The Beneficiary) one calendar year after his death;And after the shares are being sold/redeemed...
The manager of this firm in his letter apologized to me for waiting so long to contact me; information of my father’s death simply did not reach him until a colleague alerted him of the fact;I was then invited to come forward to Ivory Coast, to claim my Inheritance! The total current value of my shares now stand at approximately USD45 million after being redeemed/sold by the Company according to the agreement reached with my late father!
The Shares have been redeemed now and the funds are deposited in a private Security Deposit Firm ready for delivery to any given address of my choice or any designated area of my choice....
But this simple invitation to travel to Ivory Coast is fraught with problems! I have no International Passport! It is impossible to travel out of Cuba, unless with special permission which will of course take months of paperwork to procure…As an Anti-Castro
sympathizer , I have absolutely no hope of leaving Cuba legally…The only option is to leave by illegal ferry to the American Coast of Miami, which is extremely dangerous…Every one knows that success rate is about 20%, the unlucky get captured and repatriated back, to prison! But the rich and the connected have a
better chance by using low flying aircraft ( which will beat the Cuban Radar) to smuggle them selves out!
I therefore desperately need your help! I need you to contact the Ivory Coast Company on my behalf;secure the funds from the Company, and you will therefore deposit the money into a Bank Account.Once the money is secured, I will make the usual underground deal to be smuggled out of Cuba by aircraft, to freedom!
There is absolutely NO RISK to you in this transaction; I am the one at risk...Therefore, I will make no attempt to handle this issue from Cuba here or to get someone here in Cuba to handle the issue on my behalf as any correspondence from Cuba here will be routinely bugged and monitored by the Secret Police which will attract seizure of the funds; I will therefore give you more reasons on that in my next mail to you upon the receipt of your reply message!
In consideration of your assistance during the course of this transaction, I freely offer you 30% of the value of my funds.... If you are willing to help me recover my inheritance, please so indicate in your return reply mail and I will follow up with more details of the Private Security Deposit Firm contact address and also more details concerning the transaction etc. You will then contact the Private Security Deposit Company and thereafter arrange to close the deal on my behalf and put the USD45million safely into the Banking system…
Looking forward to your urgent reply,
Sincerely,
Lindsey Marti
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