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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: "HOFFMIER LIRA" <hoffmierlira@tiscali.cz> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hoffmierlira@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:44:37 +0200
Subject: I WOULD BE GLAD IF YOU CAN ASSIST ME
Dear Sir/Madam,
I honestly apologize and I hope I do not cause you any embarrassment by contacting you through this means for a business transaction of this magnitude, but this is due to the confidentiality and prompt accessresponse on this medium, and with trust and good hope I disclose this information confidentially to you for our mutual benefit and please I want you to keep this secret to yourself even if you are not able to help and assist me, Before explaining the nature of my request and withprofound interest and in utmost confidence, I am soliciting yourimmediate assistance and co-operation as to enable me round up a business opportunity within my capacity as a result of the death of my client..
My name is Hoffmier Lira, the present branch Manager of First National Bank here in Cape Town. I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you. I have a transaction that will benefit both of us, as your assistance is required as a foreigner. I use to head the Accounts department in my Bank head office, but last December I was asked to take position of a Manager of our branch in Cape Town who passed on, so that was how I became the present Manager and discovered a fortune. As I resumed duty, I discovered an account with total sum of twelve million five hundred thousand US dollars ($12,500,000.00) that has not been operated on for the past 5 years.
From my investigations, I found out that this account belongs to one Late MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER a German great industrialist, a property mogul and a resident of Munich, who unfortunately lost his life along with his entire families in the plane crash of CONCORDE AIRLINE [Flight AF4590 ] which crashed on 25th JULY, 2000. You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site, which I got during my investigation, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.
The account is escrow call account, a secret type of account in my Bank and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary. I have kept a close monitoring of the account since then and nobody has come forward to ask about the money as next of kin to the late Mr. Andreas Schranner, 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 Manager of my Bank branch, 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, with the correct information concerning the account, which I shall give you.
I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next of kin to Mr. Andreas Schranner the Account Holder, so that my Bank head quarter will release the funds to you. There is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.
I will give you 30% for your effort, 65% for me and 5% for contingencies that may arise in the course of processing the deposit transfer. Upon the receipt of your mail and your acceptance to work with me I will fax/email to you a specimen text of application letter which you will fill out and send to the bank.
Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I wait your urgent response.
Regards,
Mr. Hoffmier Lira
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