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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: gumar rahim1 <gumar_rahim100@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:39:08 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CALLING FOR ASISTANTCE
PLEASE BE FAST WITH THIS MAIL
Good Day
Att:
With due respect and to the glory of ALMIGHTY GOD whom we worship I call upon you to assist and Please Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you.
I got your name and contact from ONE CATALOG, from a reliable person that will help us to claim and have this money transferred out of this country because of the on going war here.
I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature and there recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust person that WE can do business with and by the recommendation, I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.
I am GUMAR Rahim the only son of late Chief. Godfrey Rahim,my late father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan but we are from Angola,my younger sister and I are here for some time now because of this money left behind by our late father. My father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip.
And our mother die years back after giving birth to my younger sister that later die few days after birth. Before the death of my father in a private hospital , he secretly called my younger sister and I on his bed side and told us that he has the sum of Ten million,eight hundred thousand United State Dollars (US$(10.8m)left in fixed /suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan,that he operate, that he used my name as his first and only son for the next of Kin in depositing of the fund.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates. That we should seek for a foreign partner in a country of our choice to transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management.
We are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To provide us with old or a fresh new bank account into which this money would be transferred to.
(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund considering our age.
(3) To make arrangement for me and my sister to come over to your country to further our education and to secure a resident permit in your country.
More over, dear I am willing to offer you 12.5% of the total sum as compensation for your effort / input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas.And 5.5% incase of any expenses that may come up during the transferring of the money into your account.
Further more, you indicate your options towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within seven (7) days you signify interest to assist me.please you can call me now with this number : +2550588035
Anticipating to hear from you today.
Thanks and GOD bless.
Best regards,
GUMAR & Sandra Rahim
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