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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: "kent james" <kent.james@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: cimi.j@telstra.com
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:00:11 +0000
Subject: Please get back(urgent)
Hi,
May i humbly introduce myself as i know that this mail may have come to you
by surprice. I am cimi james. Bank Manager of Zenith Bank, Lagos, Nigeria.
I have urgent and Very confidential business proposition for you.
In February 28, 1998, a Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the Nigeria
National Petroleum Corporation, Mr.Barry Kelly made a numbered time
(Fixed)Deposit for twelve calendar
months valued at US$20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million Dollars)in my branch. Upon
maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no
reply.
After a month, I sent a reminder and finally I discovered from his contract
employers, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Barry Kelly
died from an automobile accident.On further investigation, I found out that
he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin
was fruitless.I therefore made further investigation
and discovered that Mr. Barry Kelly did not declare any kin or relations in
all his
official documents,including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$20,000,000.00 has carefully been credited in a fictitious
account the bank for
safekeeping.No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to
Nigerian Law, at the expiratio of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to
the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applied to claim the
fund.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will want you as a Foreigner to stand as
the next of kin. I am writing you because as a public servant (Manager with
the bank), I cannot operate foreign account or have an account that is more
than $1m. I therefore want to present you as the next of kin (the rightful
owner of the fund) so that you can be able to claim it with
the help of an accredited attorney.
Finally, I urge you to provide immediately with these informations:
Your full names
Your Telephone/fax number
Your current contact address
With this information,we can commence with this mutual
beneficial transaction as it will enable me go ahead
with paperwork that will present you as the rightful
beneficiary (next of kin) of the fund.
As soon as the money is transferred to you 70% is for me while 20% is for
you and 10% will be for any expences made. Please reply immediately via my
Email address. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more
details that will help you
understand this hitch free (risk free)transaction.
Thanks and God bless.
cimi james.
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