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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: Thompson Toure <tompson_toure3@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: tompsontoure@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 03:14:06 +0100 (CET)
Subject: INVESTMENT ASSISTANT
Dear.
With due respect
Permit me to inform you my heart desire for a business relationship with you. I got your contact when I was searching for a foreign partner here in Abidjan republic of Cote D'Ivoire in West Africa on my search for honest and reliable person. I prayed over it and decided to confide in you because your integrity and educational background.
I wil make my proposal well known if I am given the opportunity I am Thompson Toure
( 21 ( 21 years old boy )the only child of late Mr. Solomon Toure. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant based in Abidjan and Accra Ghana .My father was poisoned to death by his close business associates on one of their outings on a business trip.
My mother died when I was 15 years old and since then my father took me so special because i am motherless. and he shower all his love on me and promised me that he will never have another woman because he did not want to put me in any problem.
Before the death of my father in a private hospital in Abidjan, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me of a deposit of (US$ 20.6million ) (TWENTY MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSANDS U.S DOLLARS he deposited in a Bank that he used my name been the only child as the next of kin when he deposited the money.
He warned me that because of enemy that he was poisoned by his close associates. He also advised me to seek for an honest foreigner in a country of my choice so that those associates will not hurt me as they have succeeded in poisoning him.
For your information it has been difficult to know who is an honest person to assist me in this transaction , and for me to continue silent over looking for assistance while my money is in the bank i decided to make a try from you,
since my uncle wants to kill me because of this certificate of deposits as he have succeeded in collecting all my father's property ,They continuously mal-treated me and have made life very unbearable for me.
Dear, I seek for your assistance in the following ways:
1. To help me transfer the money over to your country in your account for investment purpose into your position pending my arrival to meet whit you in your country,
2. To help me come over to your country to further my education.
please my intention is not to disturb your Peace, but because l am sincerely in need, And desperately need a solution before my life is wasted, Lastly you will promise me that you will not betray or deny me if this my money gets into your bank account and country.
I am ready to offer you 30% of the total money for your help. But if may be you are not in better position to help me Please reply back So that I can look for another helper. I am with the certificate of deposit upon demand I will show you.
Looking forward to your kind reply and I will forward you bank contact soonest may god bless you.
i remain with the best regards
Thompson Toure.
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