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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: "KARUGU" <karugu1@excite.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:43:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Karugu Mohammed.
Dear Sir,Greetings to you,This letter may come to you as a surprise, but I believe it is only a day thatpeople meet and become great friendsand business partners.My name is Mr.Karugu Mohammed, An Accountant working in a bank here in BeninRepublic West Africa. Iwrite you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with theinformation I am about to reveal to you.Like I said, I have a transaction that will benefit both of us, as yourassistance is required as a foreigner.I use to head the Accounts department in my Bank's head office, but lastDecember I was transferd toone of our Bank's branch in Cotonou because of the fact that the head Accountspassed away, so that was how Ibecame the present head accountant in my Branch , during this period as I wasauditing all the accounts, I discovered a fortune .I have discovered an account with total sum of $5,500,000 M (Five Million FiveHundred Thousand USA Dollars) which has not beenoperated on for the past 4 years
now.From my investigation, I found out that this account belongs to one Late (MrDave Marsden) a South American big time Oil dealer, who unfortunately lost hislife in the Yak-40 jetliner on March 9, 2000. I have kept a close monitoring ofthe account since then and nobody has come forwardto claim the money as next of kin to the late (Mr Dave Marsden) meaning that noone is aware of the Account. I cannot directly take out this money without thehelp of a forigner like you.As a foreigner that is why I am contacting you for an assistance to claim thefunds and share it with me.As the head accountant in branch, i have the power to influence the release ofthe funds to any foreignerthat comes up as the next of kin to the account, with the correct informationregarding the account and these information I shall give you as soon as youindicates your readiness.I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next of kin to the account.There is practically no risk involved,the transactio!
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will beexecuted under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share thefunds in percentage, so that both parties will besatisfied.Contact me as soon as you receive this message if you feel we can work together,so that we can go over to the details.Thanking you in advance and may God bless you.Please, treat with utmost confidentiality.I wait your urgent response.Regards,Karugu Mohammed.Contact E-mail:karugu@o2.pl
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