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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: "Elizerbeth Brown" <elizarbethbrownoo8@gmail.com>
Reply-To: johnsonokey10@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:28:24 +0200
Subject: GOODY DAY PLEASE GET BACK FOR MORE DETAILS
*Hello Dear Friend,
Greetings in the name of God. Please let this mail not sound too strange or
embarrassing to you. My family attorney who would have handled this WILL on
my behalf died early this year after a protracted illness. I therefore
prayed and got your email ID from your country's guestbook. I am, an
Australian by birth, from **Brisbane**. I am 58 years old. I am suffering
from a protracted cancer of the lungs which has also affected my brain cells
due to complications. from all indication my condition is really
deteriorating and it is quite obvious according to my doctor that I may not
live for the next two months, this is because the cancer stage has gotten to
a critical and life threatening stage.
I was brought up in an orphanage home as a child of circumstance, having
been abandoned at birth by my teenage biological mother and taken to an
orphanage home by a Good Samaritan. I was married to my late husband Mr.
Steve Morgan for twenty years without a child. Steve was hypertensive and
died of cardiac arrest. Before his death we were and are still fervent
Believers and a God fearing and humble family. We lived in **Nigeria** for
over 18 years, where my husband worked as an executive director with a
multinational construction and oil servicing conglomerate. Since my husbands
unfortunate demise I decided not to re-marry. When my ailment became
terrible, I sold off all our choice properties and personal belongings
comprising of a shopping mall, hotel, shares, bonds, jewelries and other
valuable family treasures and deposited the proceeds amounting to
USD$10.2million dollars with First Inland Bank of Nigeria plc. Presently,
this money is still lodged with the Bank, and the management and board of
directors of the bank just wrote me as the sole owner to come forward to
receive the money after having kept it for so long a time in their coffers,
or that i can issue a letter of authorization to somebody whom i trust to
receive it on my behalf since I can not come over and claim the funds due
largely to my illness or they get it confiscated.
Presently, I'm writing you with my laptop in a **London** hospital, located
at fulham road in west **London**. It is the leading cancer treatment
hospital in the world and I have been undergoing treatment for cancer of the
lungs there. my doctors like I said earlier told me that I have only two
months to live. It is my last wish therefore to see that 70% of this fund
which amounts to usd$7,140,000.00 (seven million one hundred and forty
thousand dollars only) is invested to any organization of your choice and
distributed as you may deem fit, especially to the motherless babies homes
and homes for destitute and the mentally retarded. You can also extend some
part of the funds to churches and mosques, if you wish. 30% of the money
which amounts to usd$3,060,000.00(three million sixty thousand dollars only)
is for your personal use.
I want you as a God fearing individual to take it upon yourself and use this
money for the aforementioned purposes, i took this decision in other to help
humanity in my little capacity before i rest in peace in the bosom of the
almighty. According to my physicians my time will soon be up. As soon as I
receive your reply I shall give you the official contact of the First Inland
Bank plc officials, to enable you reach them without delays. I will also
issue you a letter of authorization that will prove you as the new
beneficiary of my will. The funds have an open beneficiary mandate, and as
such it is whom i authorize or appoint to act on my behalf that the bank
will recognize and release the funds to. Please assure me that you will act
accordingly as stated herein.
**
**Hoping to hear from you soonest*
*
Yours Sincerely*
* *
*Sister Elizabeth Morgan*
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