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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: "Vivian Lawrence" <vivianll_4@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: vivian20-4@myway.com
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:59:52 -0700
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam,It is my pleasure to write you
Dear Sir/Madam,
It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration Since telephone
communication can not be suitable enough To communicate to you at first.
I am Miss Vivian Lawrence The only daughter of late Mr. Christopher Lawrence
of Sierra-Leone (SL) I am 24 years of age. My late father was Limited
liability in Cocoa and Gold merchant in Sierra-Leone, Ghana, and Nigeria.
Before his untimely death. After his business trip to Abidjan-Cote d'Ivoire,
to negociate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to invest in Abuja.
A Week after he came back from Abidjan, he got an accident with my mother of
which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in a
private hospital on that faithful afternoon. I didn't know that my father
was going to leave me after I had lost my mother.
But before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die.
He my father MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE he disclosed to me that he
deposited sum of $6.7, 000, 000, 00 US Dollars (SIX MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS) in a Bank in Abuja.
That the money was meant for his cocoa and gold company he wanted to
establish in Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire though, He single handed me the deposit
certificate and instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy
business partner for my life time investment abroad.
Now I have succeed in locating the bank in Abuja (Nigeria) and also
confirmed the bank with most honest and confidentiality.
Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me lift this money out from
Abuja to your safe account abroad so that we should invest it in any
meaningful lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope
in life.
Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of
this transaction. Please kindly contact me immediately on this
e-mail…vivian20-4@myway.com for more discussion.
Please don't hesitate to send me a message.
Thanks for your kind attention.
Yours sincerely
Miss. Vivian Lawrence
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