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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. Godwin"<godwin_md5@myway.com>
Reply-To: achiisi2@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:57:32 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Greetings ,,,,,,,,
Greetings and Compliments of the day,My name is Mr Godwin Francis.,I am the credit manager of a Finance Bankhere in UK. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum ofmoney from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of thismagnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuringyou that everything has been taken care off, and all will be well ifyou are really honest with me.I decided to contact you due to the urgency of thistransaction.PROPOSITION; I am the account officer of a foreigner namedCarolyn Clemetson and her husband David Clemetson who died in an air crashalong with his wife on the January 31 in an Alaska airline Flight 261with other passengers on board.http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for thismoney as his heir, because they all died in the same accident himself andhis wife (May their soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund
fromhis account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to thedeceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, Inow seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to thedeceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked out by me for thefunds (US$38m,600,000,00) to be released in your favor as thebeneficiary's next of kin Because after four years the money will becalled back to the bank treasury as unclaimed bills and the moneyshared amongst the directors of the bank.so it is on this note i decided to seek for whom his name shall be used asthe next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bankdirectors to share this money amongst themselves at the endof the year. It may interest you to know that we have secured from theprobate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceasedbeneficiaries.Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance ofour mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the
followinginformation if you are interested.1.A Beneficiary name?.In order for me to prepare the document for transferof the funds in your name.2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers.For our personal contact and mutualtrust in each other.I shall be compensating you with 30% of the fund onfinal conclusion of this project for your assistance and 5% of it willalso be used to settle all our individual expensis to make thistransaction a success, while the balance 65% shall be for me forinvestment purposes.Because I intend to retire after the conclusion of this transaction. Ifthis proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact meimmediately. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you,Regards and God bless you!Mr. Godwin Francis.
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