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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: BRUNO ASSAN <brunoassan_2005@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:02:00 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Your Utmost Assstance is REQUIRED.
Dear VICTIMNAME
RE: TRANSFER OF US$28.559 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
I am Dr.BRUNO ASSAN , the Operational Manager in Account Management
Section in charge of Credit and Foreign Bills in a Prime Bank here in
Benin Republic .
On a routine inspection, I discovered a dormant
domiciliary account with Balance of US$28,559,000
(Twenty Eight Million Five Hundred and Fifty Nine Thousand U.S dollars
Only).
The Account Holder was in charge of President Saddam Hussein's
secret crude oil transactions in Africa. On further discreet
investigation, I discovered that the account holder died long ago
with his family on a fatal Auto-accident leaving no beneficiary to
the account and no other person knows about it.
I am in close contact with the Bank Foreign Remittance Manager here who is my partner and is willing to approve the transfer to any reliable and
trustworthy foreigner with foreign bank account because the former
owner of the a/c is a foreigner.
The account has no written or oral WILL attached to it. I will provide the necessary information and
documents needed in order to claim this money if you agree to receive
this fund in your account pending my arrival in your country for
sharing and on receipt of your Bank Account Details where the fund
will be transferred.
We will start with EIGHTEEN MILLION --USD18Million. At the end, 70% will be for
me and my partner, 25% for you and 5% will be set aside for expenses
incurred on both sides during the transfer.
Benin Republic Civil Service Code of Conduct Laws that prohibits Civil Servants from
operating Private Foreign Accounts affects us.
Your cooperation is highly needed.
Best Regards,
Dr.BRUNO ASSAN.
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