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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: kerekou_vincent@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:52:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PARTNERSHIP INVESTMENT
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: vincentkerekou@rocketmail.com
- Dear Friend,First of all, excuses me to have used this means to contact you.I am Mr. Vincent Kerekou the Special Advicer to the Minister of Transport in Republic of Benin. I write this investment proposal to you in good faith; I am 50years old happily married with four children and am a man of peace, by the special grace of God. I am contacting you for you to assist me in receiving a fund amounting to the sum of (FOUR MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED UNITED STATE DOLLARS) for investment in your country. Presently I reside in my country Republic of Benin and I am a serving civil servant under the cabinet of the Ministry of Transport. This funds which I want to invest in your country was generated during the last administration of my Father (KEREKOU) as the president of Benin Republic. I will explain more of this to you latter as we proceed on this transaction. I have decided to invest outside the shores of my country for the future of my children and as an active civil servant I canno!
t transfer this sum out in my name by using the traditional banking circuit of my country because my salary cannot justify that and considering my position. This is the reason why I anticipate for your assistance in my proposed investment over there in your country. I intend to go into real estate and hotel management or depending also on what your professional advice will be. I will provide the capital needed for the proposed investment while you will assist me as a resident of the country to ensure that the investment is carried out successfully according to the laws of your country. Prior to the transfer of the investment capital into your designated bank account, we will have an investment agreement which will guide and protect the interest of the both of us in my proposed investment project. I will require you to let me know what your remuneration will be if you assist me as I proposed. Also let me know the conditions with which you will work with me in the proposed in!
vestment. Furthermore, could you please let me know your experiences i
n investment and the fields where you can implement your professional skills. Be rest assured that this transaction will be carried out within the framework of a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any infringement of the laws in your country and mine. It is necessary that this transaction remain confidential.As I expect to hear from you on this: Thanks for your time in reading this correspondence. My sincere regards to you and your family as I await for your response at my private email; kerekou_vincent@yahoo.com Mr. Vincent Kerekou Special Advicer 0022998341900
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