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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: "thomas lawson" <arc_thomaslawson@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 12:12:45 -0700
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE
ATTENTION,
As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for
me because I believe everyone will die someday. My
name is Thomas Lawson, a business merchant in Dubai,
in the U.A.E. I have been diagnosed with Esophageal
cancer which was discovered very late, due to my
laxity in caring for my health. It has defiled all
forms of medicine, and right now I have only about a
few months to live, according to medical experts. I
have not particularly lived my life so well, as I
never really cared for anyone not even myself but my
business.
I have a huge funds of US$24million deposited in form
of my personal valuables in a consignment with a
security & finance company In Nigeria.I will want you
to help me collect this deposit and dispatch it to
charity organizations as stated below. Recently, my
Doctor told me that I have a limited or numbered days
on earth due to the cancerous problems I am suffering
from. Though what bothers me most is the stroke that
I have in addition to the cancer.
With this hard reality that has befallen me, I have
decided to donate this fund to a non-governmental, or
a non religious, and or a non profit organization or
better still an individual, that will utilize this
money the way I am going to instruct here in. I will
prefer an individual, that will use this gift which
comes from me to fund the
upkeep of animal shelter homes, destitute, the
down-trodden, physically challenged children, and
persons who prove to be genuinely handicapped
financially.
It is often said that blessed is the hand that gives.
I took this decision because I do not have any child
that will inherit this money ,my wife died seven years
ago and i decided not to get married again and my
relatives are bourgeois and I once asked members of my
family to close one of my accounts and distribute the
money which I have there to charity organizations in
Bulgaria and pakistan, they refused and kept the
money.
I do not want a situation where this money will be
used in an ungodly manner, hence the reason for
taking this bold decision.I am not afraid of death
since I know where I am going. I do not need any
telephone communication in this regard due to my
deteriorating health and because of the presence of my
relatives around me. I do not want them to know about
this development.With God all things are possible.
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the
contact of the security & finance company where the
fund is loadged.I will also send you the documentation
of the consignment that will empower you as the
original beneficiary of this consignment.My happiness
is that I lived a life worthy of emulation.Please
always be prayerful all through your life.Any delay in
your reply will give me room in sourcing for an
individual for this same purpose. It is the will of
God to contact you.
Looking forward to your response.
ARC THOMAS LAWSON.
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