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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: "richjohn6700@terra.es" <richjohn6700@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:45:44 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Treat Privately it is Confidential!!
From the desk of:
Mr. Richmond Johnson
Union Bank of Nig. Plc.
Allen-Ikeja Branch
38 Allen Avenue
Ikeja-Lagos Nigeria.
Dear Friend,
It is indeed with a heart of hope that I am contacting you in the context below. Certainly, it is borne out of circumstances. I am appealing to you to treat with utmost secrecy and absolute confidentiality the contest below.
I am Richmond Johnson (Mr.), a senior staff of the above named bank. It may interest you to know that deciding to carry out this transaction was not an easy task for me, as I had to ensure that whoever I would deal with in regard to this transaction must be a person of high moral estate.
In June 1999 a customer of our bank by name Mr. Andreas Schranner a German Engineer and contractor with Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation made a deposit of US$23,800,000.00M (Twenty Three Million Eight Hundred Thousand USA Dollars only) on a three year fixed deposit basis.
At the expiration of this period, I as his account officer made attempts to reach him in other to notify him, but all efforts was to no avail. I was forced to contact the Corporation he was working with, I was so shocked to hear that Mr. Andreas Schranner was aboard the ill-fated Air France Concorde plane AF4590, which crashed on Monday, 24 July 2000 into the Hotelissimo. You can visit this website for confirmation: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm).
After this shocking news, I had to go through his account details but was astonished when I discovered that the column for Next-of-Kin was left unfilled, so I made several efforts through his country embassy here to see if any of his relatives could be traced but still no luck.
After all these hard efforts, the next step was to officially report to the bank so that the account will be frozen and the money reverted to the Federal Government account as the law declares. I have sat for a while thinking about this as there is no guarantee that the bank executives will return this fund, they will definitely with-hold it and disburse it among themselves.
After careful thoughts, I have come to realize that this might be the chance I need in life to climb to the top. So I have now decided to convert this money for my own private use since nobody knows the actual position of things at the moment.
I am contacting you seeking your consent to cooperate with me in claiming of this fund. It is quite certain to me that I alone cannot conclude this successfully. I will definitely need the assistance of a foreigner who I will present to the bank as the next of kin to Mr. Andreas Schranner irrespective of the difference in surnames or nationalities.
I have made a perfect arrangement for the successful conclusion of this transaction. How you will be of help is very simple. You are to provide to me your complete names, private phone numbers, private fax numbers and current contact address so that I will fill your information as the next of kin in the account file.
We will take the services of a sound attorney who will assist us in the documentations to make sure that all legal procedures are observed. I am the account officer and all information required are intact with me. There is nothing to fear in this matter since I am here to cover up for you. I will make sure that your interest and personality is highly protected. Besides, I have put in many years here in the bank and for this reason, I will not want my name to be muffled in scandal.
You are only advised to keep this strictly confidential. I suggest that upon conclusion, since we all are going to play important roles, you will take 40% while 55% is for me, the balance of 5% will be used for refund of all expenses we both will incur in the cause of this transaction.
I am anxiously looking forward for your urgent and positive response as quickly as possible. You should endeavour to send your reply to my private email address richjohn67@myway.com or richjohn@she.com on receipt of your positive response, I will explain in full details how we will run this deal in other to make it a huge success.
Best regards
Richmond Johnson
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