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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: Mrs Emily Hickey <mrsemilyhickey@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: hickey_emily@yahoo.es
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:40:49 +0000
Subject: Charity Project
Good day,
My is Mrs. Emily Hickey am a 59 years old widow resident in London, United Kingdom. I lost my husband to cancer in 2005 and until then He was a Manager with Ghana Oil Company Ltd (GOIL / GOC), a partly British-owned company in Ghana. He has being the source of my joy and inspiration and has supported me financially in my many charity works. We were a loving couple, our only pain was our inability to bear children, though we tried to make it up, by helping as many children as we could.
A year after the death of my husband, I was diagnosed with Uterine Sarcoma cancer, though I have being able to receive the best medical care, I have being in and out of surgery, and as I write to you now, am preparing for a surgical operation next week, and no matter the outcome, I have vowed that I will never go to the hospital again, because am just tired of hospital bed. After the death of my husband, I founded a small charity organisation which received funding from my late husband's investment turnover and donation from private groups, I deposit these fund in a trust fund which I used to fund local charity organisation whose core objectives are providing support for homeless children, destitute women and people living with HIV.
I am contacting you, because I do not want this charity ideal of funding local charity to die with me, I want you to continue from where I stopped, and also help local charities in your country and local community, your duty will be to do little research to find out those small charity organisation in need of funding and you will make out plan for them to receive funds from the Trust account which you shall solely operate and administer. I shall donate the sum of Eight million, seven hundred thousand Dollars ($8,700,000.00) of my husband fixed deposit in Ghana to you for this purpose.
You may be asking your self why contact me?, why not contact a know charity organisation to handle this task?, you are right but I want to bring to your understanding that those organisations where started by people like me and you, some contributed financially while others logistically. I am offering you the chance to be actively involved. Though charity work as you know is offered free, but a laborer is worthy of his meat, so am offering at your acceptance of this project 30% of the total sum for your effort, 5% will be used for all logistic, management, salary and getting the necessary research information, though if it pleases and you already have enough, you can also donate part of your 30% to the trust account, as you will be richly blessed also. I want you to consider this task, and if you are inspired like I was inspired, kindly reply me with your full name and phone number, so that I can have my attorney contact you, and make all necessary arrangement for you to receive the fund and proceed with this great work. I want to thank you for taking your time to read my mail, while I pray that you will consider this task for it's purpose and also please put me in your daily prayers. While I wait for your reply, I leave you with this word
"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." "
Love
Mrs Emily Hickey.
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