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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: Mrs Michele Glasser <mglasser@dddalessi.net>
Reply-To: smmr49@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:05:13 +0200
Subject: Dear
Dear Friend,
My name is Mrs Michele Glasser,am a 69 years old widow resident in London, United Kingdom. In October, I will celebrate 5 years as a multiple myeloma (MM) survivor. I am fortunate that my initial treatment, and the current one I am on, have controlled my disease well and allowed me to live an active and normal life. The only change has been to make me more aware of the love and beauty that surround me and increase the joy of every day.
I lost my husband to cancer in 2006 and until then He was a Manager with Ghana Oil Company Ltd (GOIL / GOC), a partly British-owned company in Ghana. He has being the source of my joy and inspiration and has supported me financially in my many charity works. We were a loving couple, our only pain was our inability to bear children, though we tried to make it up, by helping as many children as we could.
Within the 5 years of my illness I founded a private trust fund which received funding from my late husband's investment turnover and donation from private groups and donates this money to Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF)’s Race for Research and other research foundation for the cure and prevention of multiple myeloma (MM) and other forms of cancer. The MMRF is the #1 funder of myeloma research worldwide, and is making a difference every year for myself and other people with this rare and incurable cancer. Through MMRF funding and coordination of the efforts of researchers, drug companies and the Food and Drug Administration, three new myeloma drugs have been developed and marketed within the past 5 years, including the drug revlimid which I have been taking since February of this year. An MMRF consortium of 15 cancer centres is also currently working on dozens of promising new drugs.
I am writing to ask for your support in establishing a similar trust fund in your country that will not just only provided funding for research organisation but also support for people with various forms of cancer in your local communities. I am contacting you not for lack of people to support around me which I have been doing, but a deep desire to touch people I am yet to meet, people who known nothing about me, people with cancer and lack fund to care for themselves.Let them have the chance to life and happiness like I have and I have chosen you to be the medium to reach them. I shall donate the sum of Five million, Seven hundred thousand Dollars ($5,700,000.00) of my husband fixed deposit to you for this purpose.
I am offering you the chance to be of great effect to your community. Though charity work as you know is offered free, but a labourer is worthy of his meat, so am offering at your acceptance of this project 25% of the total sum for your effort, 5% will be used for all logistic, management, salary and getting the necessary research information, though if it pleases and you already have enough, you can also donate part of your 25% to the trust account, as you will be richly blessed also. I am making an impassioned plea for you to consider this great task and if you are inspired to carry on with it kindly reply me with your phone number and full name so that I can have my attorney contact you, and make all necessary arrangement for you to receive the fund and proceed with this great work.
Research is bringing hope for the future, and no one is more hopeful than I am. With advances being made every day, I look forward to a LONG and QUALITY life. With your support and prayers, my hopes can become reality and the hope of those around you can also be a reality.
With thanks and love,
Michele Glasser
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