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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)
Reply-To: bennyprosper@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:25:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Happy Xmas in Avance.
¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:benny.prosper@yahoo.com.co
Get back to me.
Benny Prosper.
- Sir/Madam, I apologize using this medium to reach you for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium. I am Barrister Benny Prosper, personal attorney to Late Mr Andreas Schranner, a private Businessman who was into Property Sales and Management who died in a plane crash (AF4590) in 2000,along with his entire family. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm for confirmation. Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy, HERE IN LONDON to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has proved abortive. Be informed that a member of the British Goverment Trade Delegation to your country during a trade exhibition gave your enviable credentials/particulars to me,hence i decided to contact you. My purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriating Family Valuables left behind by my client prior to his death before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable, by the Security Company where his deposits were lodged. The Security Company had issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the Valuables Confiscated, and handed over to the British Government. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating his extended relatives for over 7 years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased, so that the Valuables valued at USD$4.8 Million Dollars(Four Million Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) can be released to you and then we can share the Valuables,for your help i am willing to give you 35% of the funds. I have all the necessary Original official and legal documents that can be used to back up the this claim . All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us in seeing this transaction through,and a guarantee that you will not sit or divert my share of the valuables,when it is released to you by the Security Firm. I am constrained to take this action as if I don't, corrupt bank officials would, seize the Valuables or the British Government would impound it into the already bloated National treasury, where it would be looted by corrupt politicians, or used to fund unnecessary wars, that escalate and end innocent lives. PLEASE REPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING: 1. NAME 2. CURRENT ADDRESS 3. PHONE NUMBER/MOBILE NUMBER/FAX NUMBER This information would enable me file an application with the Security Company for the IMMEDIATE RELEASE, of my late clients Funds to you as his next of kin and Beneficiary. My Best regards, Benny Prosper.
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