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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: Baruti Mark Henson <bmhenson1@msn.com>
Reply-To: <barutimarkhenson@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:16:41 +0000
Subject: From: Baruti Mark Henson
Dearest One,
Please permit me to inform you of my desire of going into a relationship with you. This to the best of my knowledge will establish an everlasting relationship between me and your family.
My name is Baruti Mark Henson, I am 16yrs old, a native of South Africa and am the only child of late (Dr) Henry Joel Henson, my late father is a devoted Christian who went on helping people but later was disappointed by his close relatives and business friends. I was born in Nigeria in West Africa.
My father was a very wealthy cocoa and oil merchant in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa; the economic capital city of Africa. My father dead in 2005 in Nigerian Plane crash when he was going for his businesses and my mother as well died when I was a baby. Before then, my father took me so special due to I am his only child and a great passion he has towards me but before his unfortunate death that made me a complete orphan today without mother, without father and without brothers or sisters.
Before the death of my father on October 2005 in Nigerian Plane crash that took place in Lagos, here in Africa he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of (US$12.5m) which he deposited in a suspense account in Eco Bank in Nigeria that he used my name as his only Son in depositing the money as the next of Kin but I am currently in Nigeria for the request of my fathers Fund in Eco Bank but the Bank told me due to I am not up to 18 years, they can not give me the Fund unless I have someone to be my guardian.
He also explained to me that it was because of me that made him to keep this money so that I will not surfer in future. He then advised that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer the fund into for investment project if he is no more incase. I am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
(1) To serve as My guardian and foreign trustee to enable the Banktransfer the money to you on my behalf for investment abroad, since I am only 16 years old, to be 17 soon.
(2) To make arrangement for me to come
over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit in your country.Furthermore, you indicate your options towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within the shortest period so that I will come over to your country. Upon your interest and anticipating assisting me, I look forward to you with the interest of helping me.
I am assuring you of a hundred percent risk free in the course of transferring this fund for I have my late father legal document concerning the deposition of the money which I will sent to you, to contact the bank and I will give you 15% of the Fund for you assistance and 10% should go for any expenses we might encounter. And if you want to know the information concerning my fathers death, kindly see the below website as it is very awful to me.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/23/nigeria.plane/index.html
Sincerely,Baruti Mark Henson.
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