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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: "MR. SOTOUNYE FRANK BENIBOH" <sotounye@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: sotounye@starplace.com
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:12:46 +0100
Subject: I WANT YOU TO BE MY PARTNER.
Dear Sir,
I WANT YOU TO BE MY PARTNER.
Greetings to you, I am SOTOUNYE FRANK BENIBOH, a native of Okirika in Rivers State of Nigeria. Rivers state is part of Niger Delta Region of Nigeria where there is abundant of crude oil deposit, in fact Rivers State account for about 46% of crude oil produce in Nigeria for both local consumption and exportation.
In 1993 after the killing of our illustrious sons, especially the late Ken Saro Wiwa by the then Military Head Of State of Nigeria in person of Late Sanni Abacha, the youths organised themselves and form an association called Niger Delta Youths Council (NDYC) to fight for our rights and later in 1995 we turned it into a confraternity called Germans or Sailors but popularly known as the Niger Delta Vigilante Group, which I am the leader in Niger Delta and based in Okirika then. In 1999 we were used by political parties in pursuit of their ambitions in the Niger Delta Region.
The politicians promise us that as soon as they win their elections in various stages they will make sure that our rights which we are fighting for will automatically be realized and with this, we decided to take them serious. Now the party we fought for which is the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won all their elections in our domain. During this period we were able to collect Royalties from all the oil companies and ships carrying oil through our waterways in hard currency though we do sell crude oil through illegal bunkering. After the second election a lot of things went wrong, other political parties formed their own Groups thereby leading to conflicts by rival groups and causing unrest in the state, the federal government decided to ban all associations in the region including ours, when we refused we were attacked by soldiers, infact my boys were killed while my wife and two of my children escape to safety, I am in contact with them but n!
ot staying together until we have our peace.
My main reason of writing you this mail is because of my money which I have the opportunity to deposit abroad with the help of the Governor of Rivers State while traveling with him to Europe as one of his aides in February this year, during the course of our traveling, he advised that I should not open a Bank account in our country rather I should deposit the money in a Security Finance Company in Europe according to him, he said that this company where we will deposit the money will handle the safety of it and that most of the government official use the company to facilitate the safety of their funds and also will not like our government to be alerted and start asking me questions. The amount in question is $51Million (FIFTY ONE MILLION U.S. DOLLARS) in cash. If you are ready to help in seeing that this money is safely deposited in your Bank Account, I have agreed to offer you 1/4 and will appreciate you advise me on good areas of investing part of m!
y own share bearing in mind your country's laws on foreign investors. As soon as you declare your interest to transact this business with me, I will give you the Security Code and Pin Number with which you will use to submit to the Security Company and they will in turn release the consignment to you for subsequent deposit.
The money are in Four Trunk Boxes. On your confirmation, I will also give you the Combination numbers to the boxes. Please, as my partner, I will like you to keep this business very confidential as I will not like our government or any International Security Agent to know that I have such a big amount. I will only become a free man again when we finalize this transaction and able to escape to safety.
I will anticipate your immediate response.
Regards
SOTOUNYE FRANK BENIBOH.
Email:sotounye@starplace.com
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