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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: "Johnson Brown" <johnsonbrown0004@gmail.com>
Reply-To: johnsonokey10@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:12:33 +0200
Subject: GOOD 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
embarassing to you. my family attorney who would have handled this
executorship of my 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 doctors 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 conglomorate. 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,an
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 confisticated.*
*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 organisation of your choice and distributed as you
may deem fit, expecially to the motherless babies homes and homes for
destitutes 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.
SISS Elizabeth Morgan. *
*Yours Sincerely,*
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