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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: LEVI ANDERSON <miningcrudeoil@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:55:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: ATTENTION PLEASE
ANDERSON HARTLAW FOUNDATION
SENATOR ISA HAYATU (ESQ)
TEL: +234-8080202717
Dear ,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. 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.
i have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you, I am barrister
ISA HAYATU (ESQ), attorney to Late Engineer Johnson Creek. I came to
know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to
handle this confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a
huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.
MY PROPOSITION
A foreigner, Late Engineer Johnson Creek, an Oil Merchant/Contractor with
the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death three years ago in a
ghastly air crash, banked with the Union Bank Plc. Lagos, my client had a
balance of US$9.5M (Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars only) which the bank now unquestionably expects it to be claimed by
any available foreign next-of-kin of the Late beneficiary. Fervent valuable
efforts are being made by the Union Bank to locate his next-of-kin without
success and since I am his attorney, a letter was sent to me to provide his
next of kin or relatives, which I tried but proved to no avail.
It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any
of Late Engr. Johnson Creek's next-of-kin (he had no wife and children) that
the management under the influence of the chairman and member of the board
of directors, Retired Major General Kalu Uke Kalu, that the fund should be
declared "UNCLAIMABLE" until the next-of-kin of late Engr. Johnson Creek
comes to claim the fund.
So my confident in the bank and I now seek your permission to have you stand
as a next-of-kin to Late Engr. Johnson Creek so that the funds would be
released and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next-of-kin, all
documents and proves to enable you get this fund US$9.5m will be carefully
worked out by me and more so we are assuring you of a 100% risk free
involvement. Your share stays while the rest would be for my confident and
myself. I will meet with you in your country to get what belong to my
confident and I upon the completion of this transaction.
My partners and I have agreed that upon the successful conclusion of
this transaction the three parties will meet for the final disbursement
of this US$9.5m. If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to
take undue advantage of the trust, we hope to bestow on you and your
company, then kindly get back to me immediately via all the above
contacts for security reason, Furnish me with your most confidential
telephone, fax number and exclusive bank particulars so that we can use
these information to apply for the release and subsequent transfer of
the funds in your favour.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.
Yours faithfully
ISA HAYATU (ESQ
BARRISTER LEVI ANDERSON (ESQ)
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