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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: "Luna Seba" <lunaseba09@colombia.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:30:09 +0200
Subject: Dearest one,
Dearest one,
REQUEST TO BE MY GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP ME THUS:
Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? After going through your
profile, permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be a guardian
or foster parent to me and then help me out in what i am about to tell you.
My name is Luna Seba (19).I am the only daughter of Late Mr. & Mrs. Joseph
C Seba. my father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here in Abidjan, the
economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire. He was poisoned to death by his business
associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when i
was a baby.
Before the death of my father on Sept. 2007 in a private hospital here in
Abidjan, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the
sum of eight million two hundred thousand United State Dollars USD
($8.200,000) deposited in a suspense account in one of the big banks here in
Abidjan. He told me that he used my name (Luna Seba) as the next of Kin in
depositing the money.
He then strongly advised me not to seek for assistance in the investment of
the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a
foreign partner from a country of my choice (outside our country, Cote
D'Ivoire) that willl assist me in the wise investment of the money. I have
since left the money in the bank with the view of my making use of it for
investment purposes after my education carrier here.
But as you may be already aware by now, our country (Cote D'Ivoire) is
presently at political crises. Rebels have already taken over the whole
Northern part of the country and making efforts towards the capture of the
commercial center of the country, Abidjan, where i am now.
For this ugly development in this country, i have now decided to take quick
actions and have this money transferred out of this country before it is too
late to do that. I now want to transfer it out and use it for investment
purpose like real estate management or hotel management. Because of this i
am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me transfer the money into
your bank account. (2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your
country to further my education and then settle there parmanently.
If you accept to stand as my guardian or foster parent to me, i need not
discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as
yours and then assist me invest it. But if you still want a percentage, I am
willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your
assistance. Pleas tell me if you feel the percentage i offered is not ok by
you.
As soon as I receive your concrete assurance to assist me with my proposal
and also your full contact address/phone number, I will then give the bank
your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money into your
account as i want to come over to stay with you parmanently. The bank will
then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You shall then be
giving me information on when the transfer will be over. I will also send
my pictures to you and shall also need yours too.
No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please i beg you to keep
this highly secret for my safety, as i believe that those that killed my
Daddy are still after me. Please reply me as quickly as you get this mail.
Thanks for your understanding .
Best regards,
Miss Luna Seba.
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