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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: "eddstephens Gazeta.pl" <eddstephens@gazeta.pl>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 23:47:46 +0100
Subject: Unclaimed Consignment/ Metallic Trunk Boxes
From:Mr.Edwards A.Stephen.
CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER,
Crystal Trust Financial Company.
First Light Kaneshie Accra Ghana
Dear Good Friend
Good Day To You.
This is Mr.Edwards A.Stephen., I am contacting you now during my search for
a reliable, trustworthy and honest person to introduce this transfer
Investment project with. My name is Mr.Edwards A.Stephen. On November 2005,
One Mr Hussein Omar from Iraq National, an gold dealer. who runs gold
business in Ghana to Asia, whom i was accounting officer made a numbered
time Deposit One Truck Box, valued at Twelve Million Two Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars for twelve calendar months in our company. I am the
Chief Security officer crystal Trust financial company, First Light Kaneshie
Accra-Ghana, I am a Ghanaian.
I will be glad to hear you are from such good country thanks.Upon Maturity,
we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered that Mr.Hussein
Omar from Iraq, his wife and two children and wife's parents was died with
his family in a bomb blast in Iraq. My investigation proved that he died
with his supposed next-of-kins in the bomb blast. The truck box total sum,
Twelve Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars is still in our
company and the demurage is being rolled over with the principal sum at the
end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. Consequently, I
shall present you to stand in as the next- of-kin to the late Mr.Hussein
Omar.
Consequently, upon acceptance of this proposal, I will give you detailed
information on how this deal would be carried out.The money will be shared
in the ratio: (65%) for me, (30%) for you, the remaining (5%) will be kept
to recover any expenses made during the process of the transfer into your
account which include both our telephone bills. I guarantee that this will
be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law as I will use my position as the chief security of
OPERATIONS' officer to secure approvals and guarantee the successful
execution of this transaction.
I want you to handle everything for me. I have the trust in you and I know
that you will not disappoint me, I don't need to know you for many years to
trust you. If you have an idea of what should be done to being the money out
of Africa, please tell me I need your seriously and I have the impression
that you are a nice gentle person.
Please be informed that your utmost confidentiality is required.
On your reply include your
(1)Your Private mobile telephone
number/fax................
(2)Your full address......
(3)Your full names.....
(4)Your E-mail........
Awaiting your urgent reply
Best regards,
Mr.Edwards A.Stephen
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