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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: Alfonso and Linda <alfiba@hotmail.fr>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:21:13 -0300
Subject: Dear Beloved
Dear Beloved
Please permit our introduction. I am Alfonso Williams and my Sister's
name Linda. We are writing to seek your help and advice. We want to do
investment in your country and at the same time further our education.
We got your contact address through our late father's international
business directory and we decided to contact you to seek for your kind
assistance.
Our father and Mother died in a car accident on the 15th of Feb. 2006.
Shortly before this unfortunate incident, my father had informed me
about an important business deal he had executed with some of his
colleagues in the office. He told me that he diverted some money
totaling $8,300.000 which they realized from the sale of gold and
diamonds in the black market and deposited it in the bank, in a fixed
suspence account in Abidjan Cote d'ivoire.
As we have no one to look after us at this our tender age, We have
decided to relocate to your country with this money so that we can
start a new life and further our education under your guardianship. We
are right now in Abidjan Cote d'ivoire and have visited the bank where
our father deposited the money and identified ourselves properly and
informed them about the sad fate our parents had suffered. We
presented the deposit document to them and they confirmed to us that
our father had a deposit with them but where denied access to the
money because our late father had informed them that the money is to
be transferred to his business partner abroad for investment. While
they requested for the contact, we informed them that we will initiate
contact with him and after that we will inform them.
We are writing to know if you can help us stand as our guardian and as
our late father's oversea business partner so that the bank can
release and transfer the money to your bank account on our behalf. We
will give you 15% of the money as compensation once you help us do
this. You will also help us invest the remaining money in any
profitable business which you will consider in your country and you
will also get a school for us so that we can further our education. If
you can help us do this, We will need your contact to submit to the
bank so that the bank will contact you.
Thank you and May God bless you and your family.
Yours Sincerely
Alfonso and Linda
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