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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: james george <j_george01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <jgeorge1000@latinmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:31:40 +0000
Subject: An Urgent and Important Business Offer
Mr.James M. GeorgeER bank Ltd Accra Ghana Dear Sir/Madam, I am James M. George, Auditor General of ER bank Ltd Accra Ghana. I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us. In
my Bank we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m.usd in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr.Steve Wilkie, an
American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska
Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000.You shall read more about the crash on visiting this website. http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ Since
we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because the Bank
cannot release the funds unless somebody applies for it as next of kin
or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. We
have made every necessary inquiry to locate any of his relative but all
our effort proved abortive. It is therefore upon this sense that I and
two other officials in this department now decided to do business with
you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of
the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming for it and we don't want this money to go back into
Government treasury as unclaimed bill. We
agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while
the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country
for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once
this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is
our watchword in this transaction. Note
this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you
receive this mail you should contact me by return mail whether or not
you are willing to enter into this deal. In the event you are not
interested, I sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no
one about it. I am very careful on truncating my banking career should
you mention this to someone else. I hope you can be trusted in this
regard. Please
note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
funds to you has been finalized. We will discuss much in details when I
do receive your response.Please in your response include the following information.
1.YOUR FULL NAME
2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER,
3. YOUR HOUSE AND OFFICE ADDRESS
4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION
5. A COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY ATTACHED TO E-MAIL
Mr.James M. George ER bank Ltd Accra Ghana
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