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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: <adamsjuliet4@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: adamsjuliet1@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:38:39 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Please i need your help.
>From Miss Juliet Adams
PLOT 645, RUE DE LATRILLE,
PORT BUET,
COTE D' IVOIRE.
RELATIONSHIP,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you.I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature I can do business with you and by the recommendation , I must not hesitate to confide in you this simple and sincere business .
I am Miss Juliet Adams the only daughter of late Mr.and Mrs Johnson Adams. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan,the economic capital of Ivory coast,he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me and my younger brother so pecial,After my mother's death, my father married another woman who came to hate everything about me and my younger brother,Johnson jr.This hatred came as a result
of the love our father had on us. Before the death of my father on November 2004 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me about this money Two million Five Hundred Thousand us dollars (US$2.5M) he deposited with a private security company in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire He said that during the deposition of the box containing the money in the security company, that the box was declared as a family valuables not as money for security reasons that he used my name ,being his first child as the next of Kin in depositing of the box .Finally he gave me all the necessary documents Issued to him by the security company during the deposit of the box which will enable me to claim the box from the security company. The following are the documents: (i)Certificate of deposit (ii)Agreement of deposit (iii)Receipt of deposit payment.
He warned that i should never let my step mother know about the deposit or she will become very mischievious and also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates.
He went ahead to say that incase he did not survive,I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where i will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management.
I am sincerely seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To help us retrive the Box from the security company here in Abidjan to your country.
(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 19 years while my brother is 17.
(3) To make arrangement for my younger brother and I to come over to your country for further education and to secure a resident permit in your country.
Moreover, i am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after retrive the Box from the security company here in Abidjan to your country.Furthermore, you indicate your interest towards assisting us as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within fourteen (14) days from the very day i hear positively from you.
I am expecting your urgent reply.
Sincerely yours,
Juliet Adams.
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