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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: "CHARLES SPENCER" <charlesbox1@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: charlesyormie@mail.org
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 02:05:13 +0100
Subject: My Will Before I Die
Dear friend=2C
I have to say that I have no intentions of causing you any pains=2E My name is Mr=2ECharles Spencer =2Cam merchant in London=2Ctaking treatment in
London=2E now I have been diagnosed with prostate and esophageal cancer that was discovered very late due to lack of caring for my health=2E It
has defiled all form of medicine and right now=2C I have only about a few months to live according to medical experts=2E
I have not particularly lived my life so well=2C as I never really cared for anyone not even myself but my business=2EThough I am very
rich=2C I was never generous=2CI was always hostile to people and only focus on my business as that was the only thing I cared for=2E But now I regret
all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world=2E
I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would live my life a different way from how I have lived it=2E Now that God
has called me=2C I have willed and given most of my property and assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as a few close
friends =2EI want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul so=2C I have decided to give alms to charity organizations=2C as I want this to be one of
the last good deeds I do on earth=2E
So far=2C I have Distributed money to some charity organizations in the U=2EA=2EE=2C Somalia and Malaysia=2ENow that my health has deteriorated so
badly=2C I cannot do this myself anymore=2E I once asked members of my family to close one of my accounts and distribute the money which I have
there to charity organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan=2C they refused and kept the money to themselves=2E Hence=2C I do not trust them anymore=2C as
they seem not to be not contended with what I have left for them=2E
The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge cash deposit of Ten Million dollars =28$5=2C000=2C000=2C00 =29 that I have with a finance=2FDiplomatic
Security Company in Senegal Were i had my petrolem business runing =2E I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatch it to charity
organizations=2E
N=2FB=3A KINDLY NOTE THAT 20% of this funds must go to the california fire victims=2C20% should go to the victims of hurricane in the United States of
America and another 25% for your effort and time=2E
Please note that all correspondence as regards this project should be directed to my private Email=3A
charlesyormie=40mail=2Eorg OR charles=5Finlondon=40myway=2Ecom
I await your prompt response=2E
Kind regards=2C
Mr Charles Spenser
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