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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: subeenassociates@volny.cz (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:03:40 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Attention Please Treat As Urgent
SUNNIE BENGAMIN & ASSOCIATES
SOLICITORS AND ADVOCATE
#13 COLLEGE ROAD, OGBA, IKEJA,
LAGOS, NIGERIA.
OUR REF:NOK/INH/NOK/07
YOUR REF:................................
Attn, Please,
I am very much obliged and compelled to write this letter to you. Honestly,
my purpose here is to establish a fact of relationship as next of kin/estate
beneficiary of my late client, Mr. Edward Genereaux, a foreign national
who worked as a petrochemical consultant to the federal government and
other oil companies and agencies. He is known and reffered to here,
as my client. On the 21st of August 2005, my client, his wife and their
three children were involved in a boat mishap in the creeks of Escravos,
an island town in the oil rich Niger Delta region, where he was on a
petroleum exploration/supervision contract for the NNPC. Unfortunately
all the entire family lost their lives in the tragedy.
Since then, I have made several enquires to locate any of my clients'
extended relatives but all my efforts proved unsuccesful. After these
unsuccessful attempts failed, I decided to contact you. Now my contact
to you is to assist me in REPATRIATING THE MONEY IN HIS BANK ACCOUNT
HERE before the boat mishap, to avoid the money being confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the bank. He left a closing balance of US$14.3m.
More importantly, the bank (Guaranty Trust Bank of Nigeria Plc.) has
served me a writ of notice to provide the NEXT OF KIN of my client,
or the money will be coverted to be the bank's property after the expiration
of their set deadline.
Since I have tried and failed on several occassions in locating his relatives,
I am now seeking your consent to present you as the Next of Kin of the
deceassed, so that the money in his account will be paid to you, while
I will come over to your country for the sharing. I have proposed take
60% while you will take 35%, and 5% will be used to pay back all expenses
we will incur. I have all the necessary legal documents that can be
use to back up the claim we will make.
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Please get in touch with me in this my alternative email address:sunniebenandassociates@yahoo.com
immediately for details of what is to be done.
Best Regards.
Barr, Sunnie Bengamin Esq,
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