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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: "Sampas Haka" <sampas6@msn.com>
Reply-To: sampashaka1@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:38:49 +0000
Subject: Ugent. I need your co-operation.
Dear Friend,
PERSONAL LETTER TO YOU.
This letter may come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a
day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. My name
is Mr. Sampas Haka, the director of audit and accounting section of a bank
here in Benin Republic. I write you this proposal in good faith, believing
that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you.
Like I said, I have a transaction that will benefit both of us and your
assistance is required as a foreigner.I'm heading the Accounts department in
my bank head office. On November 2004 I discovered a fortune. I discovered a
fix deposit account with total sum of SIXTEEEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS
(US$16,000,000.00) that has not been operated on for the past years. From my
investigation so far, I found out that this account belongs to a Late bank
customer who unfortunately lost his life in the October 31st, 1999, at
about 1:50 a.m.,Eastern Standard Time,in Egyptair flight 990,.
I have kept a close monitoring of the account since then and nobody has come
forward to claim the money as next of kin to the late customer - meaning
that no one is aware of the account. I cannot directly take out this money
without the help of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an
assistance to claim the funds and share it with me. As the director of audit
and accounts section in my bank, I have the power to influence the release
of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the next of kin to the
account in agreement with me by supplying the correct information concerning
the account which the bank board will see and rely on it and give approval
and transfer the funds into any bank account of your chioce.
I am seeking for your co-operation to work with me by forwarding claim to
our bank's claim department for transfer of this US$16 million as the next
of kin to the account. There is practically no risk involved, the
transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of law.
If you accept to work with me in transferring this abandoned funds into any
bank account of our choice, please state how you wish us to share the funds
in percentage,so that both parties will be satisfied.
Contact me as soon as you receive this message if you feel we can work
together - so as to give you more details.
Thanking you in advance and may God bless you.Please,treat with utmost
confidentiality.
I await your urgent response through my confidential email for further
clarifications.
Meanwhile, I will like to speak with you on phone for more
information,Please you are to keep this transaction a top secret in view of
my sensitive position at the bank.
Yours Sincerely,
Sampas.
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