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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: "From: Mrs Sofia Aayat Bello" <sofiaaayat_bello01@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:15:34 +0700
Subject: INVESTMENT REQUEST
From: Mrs Sofia Aayat Bello
Address: United Nations For
Refugees, Thailand
Tel + +66-46428945
Attn: The Director&Ceo.
Greetings,
In appreciation of your esteemed contact received through a reliable source ,First of all , I wish to introduce myself to you,I am Mrs.Sofia A. Bello, the wife of the late Dr. Rashidi Bello who was one of the advisers to the former leader of Iraq before he was killed in a war in Iraq.
When my husband was killed and the rest members of my family on 16th March 2004 during the war , I and my only son escaped to Iran with the help of United Nations from there we came to Bangkok through the United Nation peace keeping Pilot.
I write this letter in respect of my intention to invest some certain amount of fund with you in your country,which I and my surviving Son inherited from my late husband. During my late husband's tenure as the adviser on special duties, he happen to be in charge of finance on building and maintainance of refineries in the whole of Iraq. It was while on this privilege position that he kept in his custody the sum of US$11M (Eleven Million United States Dollars) without the fore knowledge of the president.
Now, I want to invest the fund in a peaceful country so as to have a peaceful rest of mind regarding the safety of the fund and security reasons.
Actually, I have never met you before, it was a friend of my late husband that advised me to consider your country for my investments. He was with the goverment delegation on a trip to your country during trade exhibition in year 2002. Though I did not disclose to him much about the fund but he gave me a good recommendation about your country and they are good and friendly people.
After due consideration, I have decided to contact you because l cannot invest in your company or your country without an assistance from you or from someone from your company, l will like you to advice me on a business there that l can invest and the procedure before the investment.
Note : that no one else is aware of my proposal to you except my Son who is with me here in Thailand. In view of this plight, I expect you to be trustworthy and kind enough work with me as my partner and the investment manager of the fund.
l thank you very much for taking time to go through my e-mail and l hope to read your reply as soon to enable me detail you on the next step to take and to enable us have a good negotiation before the commencement of the investment.
Whatever your decision is please reach me immediately through this phone number +66-46428945 or e-mail for more details and keep this letter tight secret for the interest of my family.
Awaiting your urgent reply
Best regards.
Mrs. Sofia Aayat Bello
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