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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: Joshua Mbote <josmot1@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: mbotej@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:41:29 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From Joshua
My name is Mr. Joshua Mbote. I am from Ghana, a West African country it
is with trust and confidence that I make this business proposal to
you. I was the president of Ghana petroleum cooperation. acIn 2003, a
Briton called bill Burton who has been my friend since 1994, came to Accra,
Ghana from London to buy crude oil as he has been doing in the past.
Whenever he comes, he always comes with millions of dollars to purchase
crude oil for export abroad.
In this last visit of Mr. Burton in 2003, he came with the sum of
$35.5million dollars cash [thirty five million five hundred thousand dollars
cash], which I helped him to deposit in a finance house, which I
introduced to him in 1995. In 2003, two vessels belonging to Mr. bill Burton
was caught in the high sea by the navy loading crude oil without
authorized license, to this end, the two vessels were confiscated by the
navy. Based on the aforesaid, Mr. Bill Burton was arrested and charged to
court and I worked for his release as a friend through my contacts.
To my greatest surprise, the very day I secured his release, through my
lawyer, Mr. Burton ran away from Ghana without even dropping a word to
me or my lawyer who made his release possible. Unfortunately, all
efforts I have made to locate him since his escape is in vain, when I
called his house in London, somebody who claimed to be the new occupant of
his house in London said that he died along side his wife and his only
child in motor accident long ago and the man warned me not to call the
number again.
Due to my inability to produce Mr. Burton, I was arrested and detained
under house arrest since 2005 till date, pending when I will produce
Mr. Burton in the court due to the fact that in his bail bound which I
signed, I promise to produce him at any time he is needed in the court
without knowing that he will run away.
Since Mr. Burton is death and has no next of kin, I have made up my
mind to evacuate and invest this money abroad preferably in your country
or any other country of your choice, pending when I will be released
from house arrest. it will be highly appreciated if you can help me to
achieve my aims because due to restriction placed on my movement, I can
not travel to operate a foreign account for the evacuation and investment
of the money, that is why I need your assistance.
Please be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free and must
be treated with utmost confidentiality it deserved. Mind you also that
this money has noting to do with my been kept under house arrest and
no body knows about this money apart from you and I. Even the finance
company where the money is deposited does not know that the box contains
money because the box was declared containing gold dust.
I have decided to give to you 35% of the total amount for your
assistance 5% will be for payment of tax when the money gets to your country as
the law might demand while my balance 60% shall be invested in a joint
business with you. Please I need your phone number for easy
communication waiting for your urgent response.
Best regard
Joshua Mbote
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