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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: "Frank Okoh" <okoh101@sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: okohfrankbarrister@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:46:07 +0000
Subject: Message Of PatnerShip Read And Reply !!!
Law Chamber Principal Attorney
Okoh Frank & Associates
44, Kofo Abayomi Avenue,
Victoria Island,
Lagos-Nigeria.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you. I believe you
are a highly respected personality, considering the fact that I sourced your
profile from a human resource profile database on your country. Though, I do
not know to what extent you are familiar with events.
Well, I am Barrister Okoh Frank, a Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to
Mr. Steve A. who used to work with Agip Oil Company in Nigeria. On the 21st
of April 2003, his wife and their three children were involved in a car
accident along Abuja Express Road.
Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the accident. Since
then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my
client's relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to
locate any member of his family but to no avail, hence, I contacted you to
assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client in a Bank.
Particularly, the Finance House where the deceased deposited the US$15
Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars only) knows me very well and
has ask me to present some one to claim the fund left my late client as they
all know I am his attorney.
Consequently, this Bank issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin to
claim the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars only) in
their custody within the next ten official working days. Since I have been
unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years now, I seek your
consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased to claim the fund
as the Next of Kin to him so that the Bank will transfer the fund to your
account.
Upon receipt of the fund, I will come over to your country to meet with you
for the disbursement of the fund and then you and I will share the money in
this order: 70% will be for me, 30% will be for you. I have all the
necessary legal documents that can back our claim we may make with the Bank.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.for more
details about this transaction get back to me at my alternative email
address :okohfrankbarrister@yahoo.com
Best regards.
Okoh Frank
Principal Attorney
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