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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: "Dr Walter Akuve." <drakuve@virgilio.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: drakuve@voila.fr
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:53:36 +0200
Subject: Dearest Friend,
Dearest Friend,
Good day to you.
I am Dr Walter Akuve the director in charge of Auditing
and Accounting section of HALLMARK BANK of Africa Benin, in
West Africa,and also a special account officer of Mr. Ahmed
Yousuf Mustapha, a Lebanese. He was a Seasoned Contractor
with Benin Cement Company in Benin Republic., who
unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport
Africaines Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou, Benin republic on
the december 25,2003.
You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this
website:www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/
Before his death on the 25th December 2003, Mr. Ahmed
Yousuf Mustapha has a fixed deposit account with our bank
and no other person knows about this account or any thing
concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me that his supposed next of kin
died along with him in the crash. Since then I have made
several attempt to locate any of Mr. Ahmed Yousuf Mustapha's
extended relatives, this has proved unsuccessful. After
these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact
you. I contacted you to assist in repatriating the fund left
behind by Mr. Ahmed Yousuf Mustapha before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank.
Consequently, Since I have been unsuccessful in locating his
relatives for over 5 weeks now. I seek
your consent to present you as the next of kin to the
deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at
US$14 Million can be paid to you and then you and me can
share the money. 60% for me and 30% to you,while 10% will be
used to reimburse any expenses spent by both parties
involve.I have all necessary legal documents that can be
used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your
honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I
guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law. All documents of the transaction will be destroyed
immediately we receive this money is confirmed in your
account leaving no trace to any place.
If this proposal is acceptable to you, kindly email
your full data to me at
Email: walter_akuve120@yahoo.fr
Thank you for your herening to this transaction.
Your Best Regards
Dr Walter Akuve.
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