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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: Frank Johnson <seefrank3@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: frankjohnson46@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:55:01 -0800 (PST)
Subject: very important
Before I introduce myself, I wish of inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. I am Dr. Frank Johnson, a Banker .I am the Accounts officer of Engineer Robert Ewing, a national of your Country, who was until his death, a contractor and merchant in my country.
Robert Ewing, his wife and their children were involved in auto crash,on the 1st of Feb. 2002.Since then I as his accounts officer in the bank, have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of Robert Ewing extended relatives/available next of kin, without any success. I came across your name and contact, on the course of my personal searching for Robert Ewing relations. Following the protest by some members of the International Community, the World Bank and IMF, and The Government mandating that all outstanding foreign debts especially Next of Kin Payment and Contractual Payment should be released to the beneficiaries forth With unconditionally. So I decided to contact you for this project. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by Robert Ewing, before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by my bank. The board of my bank has issued a notice that after 4 months from now and no next of
kin shows up for the claim, the funds will be confiscated and declared unserviceable. Since I and my team have been unsuccessful in locating Robert Ewing relatives for sometime now, I seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin of the deceased since you are a foreigner, so that the proceed of this deposit valued at USD$3 Million Dollars can be released to you.The bank will release the funds to any foreigner who has all related information/documents to the bank account. I am in charge of this matter in my bank, because I am his accounts officer. Your application will be directed to my department forverification and approval. Everything is under my control. I shall provide you all the information and copy of the certificate of deposit issued to Robert Ewing when he deposited the funds. I will Also introduce you to attorney who will represent you in all the appropriate offices for the claim. This is just to proof to you that my proposal is genuine. I also have all
necessary information we need for the claim and once the money is transferred to you, I shall destroy all the documents used for the claim and leave no traces. After everything, you shall have 50% of the total sum, for the expenses that you might incure during the process of transferring the fund from my bank to your country.All requires is your honest cooperation to enable us see this business successful. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the Law.Robert Ewing Was a very good man and it is not wise to allow his hard earned wealth to be declare unserviceable by the greedy directors of my bank.
Further details await your response by email .
Best Regards
Frank Johnson
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