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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: joseph milton <jephmilton@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:17:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: our little offer
Dear Sir,
I had no other means of informing you before sending you this mail, please understand. I am Mr. Joseph Milton, and my mother is Mrs. Elizebeth Albert Milton, we are citizens of Sierra-Leone, from BO districts north of Freetown, Sierra Leone. We are writing you from the United Nation's refugee camp in Buduburam, central region of ghana, West Africa where we have been since year 2000 when we fled our native country because of civil war.
We have some funds, twenty-one million United States dollars (US $21m) which we want to invest with you abroad. The fund was deposited in a Trust & Finance company in Accra Ghana by my late father who was a former Deputy Minister in President Tejan Kabbah government. But because of frequent crisis and war in Africa, we want to invest the fund abroad in a very stable and business-friendly country. Or alternatively, when the fund is transfered out to you, then you would advise us on the best way to utilize it.
Before the death of my late father He warned that we should not make any investment with this Fund ($21m) in any african country because of the political instability that has engulfed the continent. And again that Me, My Mother and a Foreign partner must accompany to the security company to sign-off the release of the Fund. Because of this my Mother and I have decided to appeal for your expatriate ideas and support as our Foreign Partner to move this fund out of Ghana(Africa) to your country for proper investment.
We have agreed that at the end of the transaction (ie) after the money has been moved from the Trust & Finance company were the Funds are being deposited, My Mother and I will give you 20% share of the investment holding, under a proper agreement signed and sealed in Ghana court, and also we shall donate 10% to charity under your supervision.
Please consider this our little offer so that we can easily get out of this place like others have done. We are only appealling for you consideration to assist us in this business.
Contact us on this forwarding email address or through this email address seppmilton@yahoo.com while responding
Expecting your positive response
My regards,
Joseph Milton
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