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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: trecia kennedy <treciakenn13@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:50:58 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Trecia kennedy /I need your assistant in the name of our lord jesus christ.
>From trecia,
Dear Respectful one in the lord,
With respect and sincerely I have to inform you my desire of going into business relationship with you.I know you might be surprised on recieving this mail from me due to i have not met you before.By brief introduction.
I am Trecia Kennedy a native of bouake district in republic of Cote d'Ivoire. Trecia you see is the only child of his late father Dr.Kennedy James, who was assasinated by the rebels in our home town during the recent political crises of 19th sept. 2004.
My late father was a very wealthy Cocoa/cafe farmers & exporter based in abidjan the capital city of coted'ivoire. My mother died when I was just 8 years old,and since then my father never hide anything from me.
Before his death in a private specialist hospital,He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $5,800.000 (five million eight hundred thousand dollards) in a security company Vault,he said that he parcked the money into a metalic trunk boxes and declared it as family valuables.and he used my name as his only child for the next of kin to the deposit no matter that iam a female.
In fact, since the death of my late father, His uncle whom is still a government worker has been seriously chasing me around with constant treats,trying to suppress me so that he might have the documents of my late fathers landed properties and confiscate them.he has successfully collected all his properties, yet he never stopped there,he told me to surrender all bank account of my late father which I did not, because only this money is where my feature and destiny lies upon.my uncle never aware that i am right now here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire, and he can never be aware of me Consider my situation as a child of God and come to my rescue,please I beg of you with all honesty.
I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways now.
1) To accept to help me secure this box, by coming to the company for
the collection of the boxes as my late father's foreign partner.
2) To serve as the guardian of this money since I am still a girl of 18yrs in age, on arrival in your country i will like to contiune and finish my education and be able to have a bright feature.
I'm just a student university undergraduate and really don't know what to do.This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast. The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life.I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards.
Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.Please I will like to ask you these questions:- What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you? after the money is in your account and the trust and honest in this transaction is it guaranttee? Please Kindly consider this and get back to me immediately if you wish to help me please i am sincerely in need of your urgent attention.
Expecting your reply soon.
Best Regard
miss trecia Kennedy,
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