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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: "abuduli usman" <abuduli_usman13@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrabuduli_usman124@yahoo.ca
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:29:32 +0000
Subject: READ VERY CAREFULLY AND REPLY.
Mr Abuduli Usman
BANK OF AFRICA OUAGADOUGOU,
BURKINA FASO.Dear friend,RE: TRANSFER OF ($8,500.000.00 USD EIGHT MILLION FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS)I want to transfer to overseas the sum of ($8.500.000.00USD) Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from a Prime Bank in Africa. I would like to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve as far as it can receive money.I am Mr Abuduli Usman. an accountant and personal confidant to Mr.Robert Rice who died together with his wife in a plane crash on the October 31st 1999 on their way to attendwedding in Boston, he is an American, a physician andindustrialist, he died without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in Burkina Faso which he opened as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement of his company before his untimely death in 1999.The amount involved is ($8.500.000.00USD) Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), no other person knows about this account. I am contacting you for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I want to transfer the whole $8,500.000.00 (Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand USD) into a safe account abroad, but I don't know any foreigner. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr.Robert Rice is a foreigner too, and as such the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with the inheritance procedures.At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total amount,55% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring. You should observe utmost CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECRECY in this transaction, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I will require your assistance to invest my share in your country.Sincerely,
Mr Abuduli Usman
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