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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: "Barrister Nwachukwu" <barrister_nwachukwu@msn.com>
Reply-To: barrister_nwachukwu2006@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:36:42 +0000
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME WHIT ALL YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Barister Nwachukwu,
BRUSSLES 1210
AFRI BANK PLC
Dear Friend,
STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL
Iam Barister Nwachukwu, The manager Bills and Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department of the AFRI BANK OF NIGERIA I am writing this letter
to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business
opportunity in my department We discovered an abandoned sum of $9,000000.00
Nine million United States Dollars only in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers who died along with his entire family of a
wife and two children in November 2003 in a Plane crash
Since we heard of his death we have been expecting hisnext-of-kin to come
over and put claims for his moneyas theheirbecause we cannot release the
fundfrom hisaccount unless someone applies forclaim as thenext-of-kin to the
deceased as indicated in ourbanking guidelinesUnfortunately> neither their
family member nor distantrelative has ever appeared to claim the said fund
Uponthis discovery I and other officials in my department have agreed to
make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the
heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained
account with our bank otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks
treasury as unclaimed fund We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be
as stated thus 20 %for you as foreign partner 75 % for us the officials in
my department and 5 % for the settlement of all local and foreign expences
incurred
by us and you during the course of this business=2E Upon the successful
completion of this transfer=2C I andone of my colleagues will come to your
country and mind our share It is from our 75 % we intend to invest in
estate=29 and import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of
recycli the fund To commence this transaction we require you to immediately
indicate your interest by a return e-mail and enclose private contact
telephone number fax number full name and address and your designated bank
coordinates to enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate departments
for necessary approvals before the transfercan be made ,mean while
theassocata financial security company incharge for the releaseof the fund
has the fund to your country. Note also this transaction must be kept
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature
I WILL BE WAITING FOR YOUR CALL OK
I look forward to receive your prompt response
Yours Faithfully
Barister Nwachukwu.
AFRI BANK PLC
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