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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: tonywillians2@freenet.de
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:36:05 +0200
Subject: My dear Friend ,
My dear Friend ,
I am Mr Aku Ewebe, the manager of bill and exchange
at the foreign remittance department of Bank of Africa Benin Republic in
West-Africa. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$12.2M
(twelve million, two hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in August 17, 2002 earth quake in Izmir, Turkey.
Since we got
information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to
come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some
body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we
learning that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside
with him in the earth quake leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It
is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this
business proposal to you and for the bank to release the money to you if
you will follow instructions, to be the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and I don\'t want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed bill. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if
such money remained unclaimed after eight years,the money will be
transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The request of
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that
the customer was a foreigner and an indigene cannot stand as next of kin
to a foreigner.
I agree that 45% of this money will be for you as
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the business and 50% be for me.
Thereafter,
I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage
indicated. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to
you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of
kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number,
your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where the money will be transfer to you.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of
fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You
should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this mail.
Trusting to contact me hear immediately Email mrakuewebe@yahoo.fr
Yours truly,
Mr Aku Ewebe.
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