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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: thelma davis <thelmadavis67987@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: thelmadavis@thelmadavis.ourprofile.biz
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:37:10 -0800 (PST)
Subject: YOUR RESPOND IS NEEDED
Dear
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, Although Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Ms.Thelma Davis,An America But Married to a Nigerian, a Manager at the Union Bank Nigeria PLC,Apapa Annex Head Quters Lagos-Nigeria. I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence hence i am a banker and can not do it all alone.
A foreigner,(LATE ENGR. CHRIS H.BHUPINDER) an oil Merchant/contractor with the federal Government of Nigeria, until his death five years ago in a ghastly aircrash, banked with us here at the Union Bank PLC, Lagos, and had a closing balance of USD$7.2M (Seven Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now expects to be claimed by any of his available Relative or next of kin without that it will be Considered frozen.Valuable efforts are being made by the Union Bank to get in touch with any of late Engr's next of kin (he did not make known his wife or children as the next of kin) to the Bank.
Now the board of directors, are making arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLIAMABLE " and then be subsequently becomes Union Bank's money. In order to avert this negative development, myself and one of my trusted colleague in the bank now seek for your permission to have you stand as the next of kin so that the fund, USD$7.2M, would be subsequently transferred and paid to you via ALL TIME MONEY(ATM)CARD bit by bit in other to take the government eye off it.see the link below for proof:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1968616.stm>
The Two documents for proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we are assuring you 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 40% of the total amount. while the two of us would share 60% to ourselves myself and my colleague which wil will use for purposes of investment in your country. If this proposal is OK by you then kindly get to me immediately via
E-mail{ thelmadavis@thelmadavis.ourprofile.biz}
furnishing me with your most confidential telephone numbers, and address where the ATM Card will be sent to you, so that I can forward to you the relevant documents for this transaction.
Regards.
Mrs.Thelma A.Davis
DIRECT PHONE NUMBER:234-80-69-721149
MANAGER UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.
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