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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. Phillips Bravo" <id1819@excite.com>
Reply-To: phillbravo1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:21:29 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Please bear with me
Dear friend,
I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise, but never mind, I got your contact randomely on the web on a curious search for a patner to help me execute this business deal, and have decided to seek your assistance.
I am the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of African Development Bank, (A.D.B) Cotonou, Republic of Benin. I hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families.
During the course of our auditing, we discovered the sum of($9.6 Million United States Dollars) Nine Million, six hundred thousand United States Dollars floating in an account opened in this Bank by an English Custormer, a foreigner since 1998 and as from 2001 no body has operated on this account again, and after going through some old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the account died along with his supposed next of kin in an air crash since July 2000. Hence the money floating.
After due verification, I noticed that no other person knows about this account except his wife who was also invovled in the crash. So, the account has no other beneficiary from this country. My investigation futher proved that until his death, he was the Director of GOLD ARK [SARL]. Since our bank (ADB) Benin Rep, got informations about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come forward and claim this money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and policies which nobody up to date, came up to this bank as his next of kin or relative.
According to the banking laws in this Country, if nobody apply for this money till six years, it would go into the government treasury as an unclaimed fund. And April 27th will clock it exactly six years. After this date the bank will forward the money to the Central Bank.
On this note, I decided to seek for your assistance in getting this fund out of the bank into a foreign account. We will use part of the money for a charity works and shear the rest for our selveves.
Upon the receipt of your response, I will send to you the application form, Bank contact and the next step to take in this transaction. Please your telephone number will be of good help for a detail discussion.
I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret or delete it if you are not interested.
Thanks.
Mr. Phillips Bravo.
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