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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: "Mr.Takahashi Y. Mensanvi," <khaju_j@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mr.takahashiyusuyuki@yahoo.ca
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:15:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Hello,
From Mr.Takahashi Y. Mensanvi,
Internal Auditor Commerce Bank Plc
28 Government Quarters, B.P, 359.
Lome Togo.
Attn:
I’m Mr.Takahashi Y. Mensanvi, I work with COMMERCE BANK PLC LOME TOGO, currently I am in charge of Auditing & Accounting Department of our bank personal Account Manager to a foreign national an oil consultant with Shell Petroleum here in Lome Togo.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of (US$9.5Million) (Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United State dollars). in an allotted vault in this bank, that belongs to this our foreign customer who eventually was involve in a car accident On the 21st of April 2002 along Nouvissi express Road Kara Lome-Togo and Unfortunately lost his lives in the event of the crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money as bank cannot release it unless somebody officially applies for it as indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin died with him in the event of the crash leaving nobody behind for the claim of his (Fund) with our bank.
It's upon this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal because It is a standard practice that after stipulated date of expiration the funds will be declared as an "Unclaimed Asset Resource" and the account closed. My major reason contacting you is because I wish to use your information to transfer this fund to a foreign bank account in your country.
The request for a foreigner as next-of-kin in this business occasioned the fact that the deceased was a foreigner and a Togolese can not stand as the next-of-kin to a foreigner. I agreed that 40% of this money will be for you in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for sundry expenses we might encounter during this business while 50% will be for me.
If you accept my offer please I will need the following information below to commence the process.
YOU’RE FULL NAME//........
NATIONALITY//...............
TELEPHONE N°//..........
As soon as i hear from you I will send to you by fax or e-mail, Text of Application you will fill and submit to our bank. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100 hitches free. All arrangement for the transfer of this fund has been legitimately made under smooth arrangement.
Trusting to hear from you Asap for more explanations and possible means of transferring this fund.
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Takahashi Y. Mensanvi,
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