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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: OBI STANLEY <obistan005@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 10:17:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: NEXT OF KIN TO THE LATE GRANGER
Dear VICTIMNAME,
I am Mr. STANLEY OBI , an Accountant with INTERCONTINENTAL BANK PLC(ICB), I am the personal Account Manager to Engr. Michael Granger, a national of your country and a contractor with Texaco Petroleum Company in Nigeria.
On the 21st of April 2002, Engr. Michael Granger(Herein after shall be referred to as my client), his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident Along Lagos/Ibadan Express Road.Unfortunately they all lost their lives in the event of the accident, since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my client's extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.After these several Unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, to locateany member of His family but of no avail, hence I contacted you.
I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money inaddition, property left behind by my client before they get Confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged.Particularly, INTERCONTINENTAL BANK PLC, where the deceased had an account valued at about US$7 million dollars.
Consequently, The bank issued me a notice to provide the Next Of Kin or have the account confiscated within the next twenty official working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are from the same country and you both share the same surname so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$7 million dollars can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money. 50% to me and 40% to you, while 10% should be for expenses or tax as your government may require.
An attorney will be contracted to help revalidated and notarize all the necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us sees this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me by email to Enable us discuss further and also send your telephone number for easy communication. Send your response to my private email address:
stanoffice@katamail.com
For me to file in for you as the next of kin,I would like you to send me the folowing information
1.Full Names............
2.Nationality...........
3.Age/Sex...............
4.Cell Number...........
5.Ocupation.............
Best regards,
Mr.STANLEY OBI
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