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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: Michael Thomas <michaelth4@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:56:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Work With Me
Hello Friend,
My name is Michael Thomas. I trained and work as an external auditor for the Standard Chartered Bank Ltd,working as part of a bigger team thatcovers the entire Ghana-Accra. I have taken pains to find your contact through a colleague that is connected with the British Chamber of Commerce On routine audit check last year, I discovered some investment accounts that had been dormant for at least 9 years.All the accounts belong to a single/ one account holder with monies totalling a little above $ 17million USD. Now banking regulation/legislation here demand that I do notify the fiscal authorities after a statutory time span of 8 years when dormant accounts of this type are called in by Bank of Ghana monetary regulatory bodies.The above set of facts underscores my reason for writing and proposing to you.My investigations of the said account reveals that the investor had died in 2002 the exact time the account was last operated.can confirm with certainty that the said investor died
interstate and no next of kin to his estate has been found or has come forward all these years.They bank want to have this account confiscated within ten working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years now and that is why I am of the settled conviction that using my insider leverage, I, working with you can secure the funds in the account for ourselves instead of allowing it pass as unclaimed funds into the coffers of the Government.
The money will be paid to your account, as you will have to provide an account in any part of the world to facilitate the transfer. The money will be paid into your account as claims by my bank upon submission of your application as the next of kin.Afterwards, the funds would be shared 45% for me 40% for you and 10% to any charity organization of your choice while the 5% will be for unseen bottlenecks. Please you have to keep this confidential because the bank does not have to know that I gave you this information concerning the late.All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law.Please hold this with utmost confidentiality and be rest assured that that this transaction would be most profitable for us. I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.
Best Regards,
Michael Thomas.
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