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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: Major Andrew Gibson <majorandrewgibson2@yahoo.in>
Reply-To: majorandrewgibson3@yahoo.in
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:38:21 +0300
Subject: RE-US$50.8 MILLIONS FOR INVESTMENTS; GET BACK TO ME.
Dear Friend,
My name is Major Andrew Gibson.I am an America soldier with swiss background
serving in the military with the army 3rd infantry division. with a very
desperate need for assistance,I have summed up courage to contact you.I found
your contact particulars in an address journal. I am seeking your kind
assistance to move the sum ($50.8 million dollars) Fifty million and eight
hundred thousand united state dollars to you, as far as i can be assured that
my share will be in your care until i complete my service here,This is no
stolen money, and there are no danger involved. I am presently in a hospital
recovering from injuries sustained in a suicide bomb attack.
Source of money:
Some money in various currencies was discovered in barrels at a farm
house near
one of Saddam's old palaces in Tikrit-Iraq during a rescue operation, and it
was agreed by staff sgt Kenneth Buff and i that some part of this money be
shared among both of us before informing anybody about it since both of us saw
the money first.This was quite an illegal thing to do,but i tell you what no
compensation can make up for the risks we have taken with our lives in this
hell hole.Of which my brother inlaw was killed by a road side bomb last week.
please view this website for confirmation;
http://www.voanews.com/burmese/archive/2003-04/a-2003-04-20-1-1.cfm
The above figure was given to me as my share,and to conceal this kind of money
became a problem for me,so with the help of a british contact working here and
his office enjoy some immunity,I was able to move the money to a private
diplomatic security company in London as a diplomatic luggage for
safekeeping.They are now waiting for us to provide the name of a beneficiary
whom the luggages would be delivered to,the reason i want you to claim this
funds on my behalf is that as a soldier,i cannot present a concrete
evidence on
how i made such a big amount of money down here in Iraq.Besides the us
government is trying their best to keep there eyes on soldiers here in
order to
effect a high level of discipline among us.The moment i'm sure that you're
willing to assist me,i will give you the information of the security company
and the security code of the luggage.I want u to tell me how much u would take
from this money for the assistance you're willing to
render.
One passionate appeal i will make to you is not to discuss this project with
anybody,should you have any reasons to reject this offer,please and please
destroy this message as any leakage of this information will be too bad for us
as soldiers here in Iraq.I do not know how long we will remain here,and i have
been shot,wounded and survived two suicide bomb attacks by the special
grace of
God,this and other reasons i will mention later has prompted me to reach out
for help,i honestly want this project to be resolved
immediately,please contact
me as soon as possible,my only way of communication is by e-mail
majorandrewgibson3@yahoo.in
Yours in Service,
Major Andrew Gibson Camp MXP-512 Third Infantry Division Unit(T.I.D.U),
Abul Uruj,bagdad,Iraq
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