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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: "Dr. Ben Moses" <drbem25@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:45:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Waiting to hear from you
>From the Desk of: Dr. Ben Osie Moses
(Corporate & Investment Banking)
Ecowas Bank, Accra Ghana.
Dear Friend,
Permit me to introduce myself to you. My name is Ben Osie Moses , Head, Corporate & Investment Banking, Ecowas Bank, Accra Ghana. This letter may come to you as a surprise since it is coming from someone you have not met before and due to high volume of Spam mails that goes around the world through this means. I have no other choice than to send it to you through the internet.
Therefore, I will appreciate if you honor it and give me all your trust and full co operation. I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable person/company to handle a confidential transaction on my behalf.
Proposition: An America, Mr. Morris Thompson who is a consultant/contractor with Ghana government had in our Bank the sum of US$9.5m in a domiciliary account
Number: 14-2558-2004, of which I am the account officer He unfortunately lost his life in plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter leaving nobody to claim the money.
He named his wife, as the next of kin. Unfortunately, two of them died the plane crash. You can confirm this information on
website:http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Efforts had been made by the management of my Bank through the American Embassy to contact any of the deceased relation, but to no avail. Given the skeletal information available to the Bank, it has so far been impossible to reach any of the relatives.
The option left for the Bank management is to declare the deceased account dormant and revert the funds to trading on behalf of and in the interest of the Bank. In Ghana, and almost all other parts of African continent, when Banks acquire funds such as that of Mr. Morris Thompson, they are required by law to donate 30% of the funds on acquisition to
trust fund for arms and ammunitions.
Arms and ammunitions purchased with funds from the Trust Fund are used to further enhance the course of war in Africa and invariably turbulence of some sort in the world in general. It is therefore in order to avoid/avert and discourage this negative development that my colleagues and I now seek your assistance to have you stand as a distant relative {next of kin} to Mr. Morris Thompson, so that the funds would be released to you. All documents and proof to enable you get the funds will be carefully packaged once we receive your consent on this proposal.
May I assure you that this transaction is 100% safe and risk-free, as we have taken care of all necessary modalities to ensure a hitch-free transaction. I have the authority in transaction to propose that should you be willing to assist us in the transaction your share would be 35% of the US$9.5million, 65% for me. I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me. Please reply along with these followings for effective proceedings.
1 your full names and address
2 tell phone number
3 fax number.
Thanks and GOD BLESS
Ben Osie Moses
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