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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: Ricky Williams <mailricky02@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: rickywilliams00@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:16:04 -0800 (PST)
Subject: DEAREST FRIEND
From: Ricky Williams (Esq.)
Ricky Williams (SAN) & Co.
My Dear Friend,
I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of an amount of money from my
client’s account with the United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) On the 25th of July 2000,
the deceased (My Client), Andreas Schranner, 64, a German property Magnate and chief
consultant with Chevron Oil Exploration Company in Nigeria (Africa), his wife,
daughter and son-in-law and their children all perished in the flight AF4590 Concorde
crash. You can read through for more information via the following website;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Although I know that a transaction of this magnitude might make anyone apprehensive, I
would like to assure you that I am sending you this mail with the best of intensions
and there is no form of illegality involved.
Before his death, my client Andreas Schranner was having a long term deposit with the
United Bank for Africa to the tune of US$12,500,000.00 under Banker’s Acceptance.
Since his death, I have made frantic efforts to locate any of his relatives to lay
claims to this estate as the heir but my efforts were aborted. The Bank cannot release
the fund unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as
indicated in the banking guidelines for the release of an estate (Inheritance).
I am compelled at this time by the Bank as the attorney to late Andreas Schranner, to
present his next of kin for the claim of his estate or the fund will be declared
unserviceable by the Bank and since I can not find or locate any of his relatives
hence my decision to solicit for your partnership in this venture because I can not
stand to see my late client's fund be declared unserviceable as a result of not being
able to present the next of kin to claim this estate.
I therefore solicit your consent to present you to the management of the United Bank
for Africa Plc as the next of kin to late Andreas Schranner for the claim of his
estate. This process will be legitimately worked out as I have the power as his
attorney to process and see to the release of his estate to anyone of the relative or
next of kin. It is a one way procedure under the inheritance law here in Nigeria and
it will take less than 21 working days to release the estate to you after you make the
first application to the Bank as the claimant. Since I am known to the Bank as
attorney to late Andreas Schranner, it will be an easy process for us to get the
estate released to you within the 21 days.
Once the estate is released to you, I will fly down to your country to disburse the
fund with you. While 45% will be your own share out of the proceeds, 54% will be mine
and 1% will be set aside to off-set expenses incurred during the cause of the
inheritance processing.
If this proposal is acceptable by you then contact me immediately and do not take
undue advantage of the trust I am about to bestow on you, I await your urgent
response.
Best Regards,
Ricky Williams.
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