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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:07:40 +0000
Subject: In Respect of Mike Hall
Dear Good Friend,
First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and secret, though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and even worried. But I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
l am Mr.Boye Ogunmolade Head, Inspection & Audit of FIDELITY BANK PLC, LagosNigeria . I contact you with believe that you are reliably, discreetness and have the ability to handle this confidential transaction, which involves transferring of unclaimed fund to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.
THE PROPOSITION
A Bristol late Mr. Mike & Carol Hall, an oil merchant and construction engineer with the Nigeria National petroleum corporation NNPC), until their death last fours ago in Patong-Thailand Tsunami disaster of 26th of December 2004, Deposited with us at FIDELITY BANK PLC in Lagos, US$ 10.5M, (Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars Only), The Bank now expects a next of kin as beneficiary. Serious efforts are being made by FIDELITY BANK PLC to get in touch with any of Mike hall's family or relatives but to no avail. Please check this website :( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4153821.stm}
There is a perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of late Mike Hall's next of kin (he had no children known to us.) The management under the influence of our chairman and members of the Board of Directors has made arrangement for the fund to be declared "Unclaimed" and subsequently transfer into their personal account.
ln order to avert this negative development, I, now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to Late Mike Hall's, so that the fund US$ 10.5Million will be released and paid to your account as beneficiary or next of kin. All documents and proofs to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out. We have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. I have agreed to give you 50% of the fund for your involvement; then 50% will be for me. I am assuring you that this business is 100% risk free, and need only maturity from all the parties involved. As soon as we receive acknowledgement of your acceptance of this our mutual business proposal with your full information, we would proceed into action immediately.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do take advantage of the trust we have bestowed on you, get in touch with me immediately.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Boye Ogunmolade.
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