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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: "j.r peters" <jrpeters0030@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jrpeters1@myway.com
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:41:40 +0000
Subject: I wait for your urgent response
Dear, Friend
I hope that this mail will not constitute a sort of enbrassment to you let
me introduce my self. I am Jacob Ruwa peters,a Sierra Leonean. Presently, I
live as a refugee in London,England, with my younger sister,Mary.I am a
victim of war and the son of late Dr.Dennis Ruwa, the assassinated former
assistant director of Sierra Leone gold and diamond Mining Corporation.I
have the confidence and trust to contact you based on my faith in God and
the reliability of the source of your contact.
My father was killed with other government officials during official hours
when the rebel troops stormed and raided the mining corporation office at
the heat of the crisis in my country. A few weeks later, the rebels also
invaded our residential building in which my mother and two of our security
men were killed in the compound while I was out for a special research
program and my younger sister was in the school.I had a singular shock and
trauma, which compelled us to flee from the country to London by the help of
an army colonel who is a close friend of my late father.
I have a first degree in marketing and would have furthered my education if
not for the death of my parents. I have never worked to earn my living since
my late parents had enough wealth for us. I am contacting you now because
of the present difficulty I am facing. Unfortunately my father's two
accounts in West Africa have recently been frozen. However, this did not
affect the(US$30,000,000.00), thirty million United States dollars which
he kept in the security vault of a vaults services company. For now, my late
father deposited this fund in a trunk box and declared the content to be
"family valuables) belonging to his foreign business partner.
Note that I am having every information and document needed for the
clearance of the money in the security company and I want you to act as the
beneficiary of the fund for easy and smooth clearance. You will no doubt be
adequately compensated with 35% of the money for your personal use and
benefit as well as a percentage of profit from investment of the fund. Also
you will see to it that I and my sister come over to your country at the
earliest possible time. I am making this request to you with tears in my
eyes and I feel that God Almighty will touch you with his spirit to listen
to my cry for help and answer me without delay since our breadwinner is no
more and this is the only hope of life. Your positive response will give me
the greatest joy and relief.
God bless you.
Regards,
Jacob.
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