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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: SHERIFF YUSUF <syusufltd1@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:44:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: please reply urgently
INTERCONTINENTAL BANK PLC
ADEOLA HOPEWELL VICTORIA ISLAND
LAGOS
INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPT(I.R.D)
TEL 234 8039145286
ATTN DEAR SIR
I am ,Mr sheriff yusuf an Accountant with Intercontinental bank, Lagos
Branch. I made up my mind with trust to contact you for an urgent and very confidential business, knowing fully well that we had no previous dealings before. On December 6, 2000,An American Oil consultant/contractor with the NIGERIAN RAILWAY CORPORATION (N.R.C), Mrs.Alice Myers Huisman, made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at U.S$7,800,000.00(Seven Million eight hundred thousand Dollars) in my branch.
Address, 1st Floor,#1-3 ADEOLA HOPEWELL VICTORIA ISLAND ,LAGOS. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to her forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from her contract employers, the Nigerian Railway Corporation that she died from a ghastly auto mobile accident. On further investigation, I found out that she died without making a WILL, and all
attempts to trace her next of kin was fruitless.
I therefore made further investigation and discovered that she did not declare any next of kin or relations in all her official documents, including her Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$7,800,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 5(five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim this fund.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to her so that the fruits of this woman's labor will not be in vain.
This is simple as long as I am here to direct and provide you with every information required.
The money will be paid to you for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me and 40%for you. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction shall be provided
Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us .Call me immediately you receive this message for more information. {TEL, 234 8039145286}
Awaiting your urgent reply via this email: suf_syusuf@yahoo.com
Thanks and regards.
MR SHERIFF YUSUF
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