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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: Raphael Kamara <cocacola.prom@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: kamara.raphael@yahoo.com.br
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:31:41 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Hello my dear
Dearest one,
Compliments and God bless you, Kindly accept my apology for sending my mail to you. It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I cannot be able to see you face to face at first. I am Raphael Kamara, the only son of late Chief Vincent Kamara,from Sierra Leone. My sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence to rely on you.
I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to transfer our($13,500,000)U.S dollars deposited in the custody of a bank here in Abidjan to your private account pending our arival to your country. Source of the money. My late father,chief Vincent Kamara, a native of mende district in the Northern province of Sierra Leone, was the general Manager of Sierra Leone mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.)
According to my father, This money was the income accrued from mining co-operation over draft and minor sales Before the peak of the civil war between the rebels forces of major Paul Koromah and the combined forces of ecomog peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from power of the Civilian Elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels. My father had already made arrangement for his family, my mother my little sister and myself to be evacuated to Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire with our personal effects. My father deposited the fund for the safe custody until after the war when he will join us.
During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looting of public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the sierra Leone mining coop Was one of the targets looted and killed My father including other top Government functionaries Were attacked and killed by the rebels because of his relationship with the civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.
As a result of my father's death, and with the news of my uncles involvement in air crash, dashed our hope of survival. The untimely deaths caused my mothers heart failure and other related complications of which she later died in the hospital After we must have spent a lot of money on her.
Now my younger sister and myself are alone in this strange country suffering without any careor help.Without any relation, we are now like refugee sandorphans, Our only hope now is in this fund which our father deposited in the BANK. To this effect,I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways.-
To assist me transfer this money out of this country, all what i needed from you is to furnish me with your banking information and your personal contact so that i will go and submit it to the bank in order to effect the transfer on your destinated bank account and also make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country,secure a college for my little sister and my self in your country to further our education which we stoped during the war.And to make arrangement for our travel with you to your country after you have transferred this fund.
Most importantly, we will like you to keep this transaction very confidencial and promise us that, you will not sit on the money when it is transferred into your account. I beg you to concede 15 % of this money to you for
your efforts assistance.
Best regards.
Raphael Kamara.
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