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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: "Mr. Rowland Lauterburg" <rowinv256@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rowland_lauterburg@o2.pl
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:11:00 +0000
Subject: Partnership Business Proposal
Dear Partner,
Please do not let this come to you as a surprise; I am
only contacting you because I need you as a foreign
partner in transaction. I am Rowland Lauterburg, a
management staff in a bank in Switzerland. I am
contacting you on business transfer of a huge sum of
money from a deceased account. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that
all will be well at the end of the day. We decided to
contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
We discovered an abandoned sum of Eighteen Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars
($18,500,000.00) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers, Harunna Muhammad. We believed
that this fund belongs to Saddam Hussein because
Harunna Muhammad is an associate of Saddam Hussein and
he died in the war in Iraq because after the war, no
one has come forward to lay claims for this money as
the heir and there has been no contact from either him
or any one to the bank. We cannot release the fund
from his account unless someone applies for claim as
the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, we now seek
your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to
the deceased as all documentations will be carefully
worked out by us for the funds ($18,500,000.00) to be
released in your favor as the beneficiary's next of
kin. It may interest you to know that we have secured
from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of
deceased beneficiaries.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by
furnishing me with your full names, your complete
address, a direct telephone and fax numbers for better
communication. These requirements will enable us file
letter of claim to the appropriate departments for
necessary approvals in your favor before the transfer
can be made. You shall be compensated with 40% of this
Money on final conclusion of this project. I find
myself privileged to have this information and this is
a great opportunity of a life time of success without
risks.
I await your urgent response to this proposal so that
I can give you more modalities on how we intend to
carry out this transaction without breaking any
international money laws.
Please send your reply to [rowland_lauterburg@o2.pl].
My Regards,
Mr. Rowland Lauterburg.
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