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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: "Chucks Chiedu" <chuckschiedu@msn.com>
Reply-To: chukschiedu@sify.com
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:16:32 +0000
Subject: Re:Urgent Assistance.
Attn: The President/CEO.
Dear Friend,
It is with mixed feelings that I write this letter to you, though we have
not met each other before now, but it is my hope and belief that at the
end of this transaction that I want to introduce to you and seek your
help/assistance
for, we will definitely get to know each other better and appreciate one
another.
My name is Mr. Chuks Chiedu of the Liberian Army. I am one of the close
confidants of our erstwhile President, Gen. Charles Taylor who is now under
political asylum in Nigeria after a bitter 12years civil war in my country
Liberia. Of which Charles Taylor voluntarily relinquished power to an
interim
government put in place in Liberia by (ECOWAS & AU) for peace to reign in
that country before accepting an offer to take up asylum in Nigeria.
Right now, we are about 100 close associate and confidants in asylum with
him in the city of Calabar in Nigeria and I Mr. Chuks Chiedu is specifically
in charge of president Charles Taylor's finances which we brought into
Nigeria
totaling about US$20million (Twenty Million United Stated Dollars). But
due to the US$2million ransom placed on the head of President Charles Taylor
by the US government on any information that will lead to the
capture/abduction
of President Charles Taylor from Nigeria to face the UN tribunal in Sierra
Leone/Liberia because of the war for crimes they claimed he has committed
while in office as President.
There is now a general atmosphere of fears and uncertainty that one day
the American soldiers will invade Nigeria to abduct him to face the UN
tribunal,
which will then mean forfeiting all his wealth including the above mentioned
US$20million. Charles Taylor has therefore charged me specifically to find
a way of moving this fund away from Nigeria to a secret place abroad through
an agent or individual for safe keeps, after which the agent/individual
will be compensated with 20% of the total sum while the balance 80%
belonging
to Charles Taylor can then be invested to any lucrative profit generating
business pending when Charles Taylor will be needing the funds.
Meanwhile, because of the confidentiality this transaction requires, we
have decided not to use the means of a wire transfer to move these funds
abroad so as not to allow the outside world get wind of it and possibly
block/seize the funds. As such I have device a means to secretly move this
funds to you abroad by packaging/stocking the funds into boxes in form of
consignments and depositing them (boxes) with a security company as Gold
Bars for onward/immediate airlifting/shipment to you as goods & services,
this way it is only you and myself that will then know the actual content
of the consignments.
Therefore, all we require you to do now is to assist in receiving the
packages
(consignments) from the security/courier company as the beneficiary and
once this is done successfully, I will send you the keys to open the
consignments
to gain access to the funds for your 20% share for assisting us, while also
counting on your further assistance to help us invest the balance 80% into
business with the names and information we will furnish you with later for
the investments.
To enable you received these consignments from the security/courier company
as the rightful beneficiary, I will need you to send me your full name and
contact address information where the security company will deliver the
consignments to you, for your pick ups and then your telephone/fax numbers
for easy communications, these will then be submitted to the Security
Company
as the contact information of the receiver/recipient of the consignments,
so as to enable them deliver the Consignments to you. Please be informed
that if the security company finds it difficult to deliver the consignments
to your contact address due to any reason, then you might be required to
personally travel to any of their branch office in Europe to take possession
of the consignments into your custody.
Finally, let me quickly remind you that this transaction is 100% risk free
as we have done our home work for the successful delivery of the consignment
before contacting you.
Thanks in advance for your urgent reply with the above requested information
s and full co-operation.
Yours faithfully
Mr.Chuks Chiedu.
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