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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: greg nabanto <gregnabanto@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:24:36 -0400
Subject: assist
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being confidential and top secret .Though, I know that transaction of this magnitude will make one apprehensive because of dishonesty that is surrounding the whole world today. My name is Mr. greg D. nabanto, manager with Citi Bank Plc, Cotonou , Benin Republic West Africa .THE PROPOSITION: A foreigner late engineer wegner, an oil merchant/contractor with the Democratic Republic of Benin until his death in 1999 in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at Citi Bank Plc, Cotonou, and had a closing balance of thirty five million five hundred thousand u.s dollars, which the bank now expect his next of kin to claim as beneficiary. A valuable effort has been made by Citi Bank Plc to get in touch with any of wegner family or relatives but there has been no success, it is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of the late wegner next of kin, (he has no wife or children), that the management under the influence of our chairman Mr.Umar Shelling, requested that arrangement to be made for the funds to be declared un-claimed and subsequently donated to the red cross trust. In order to prevent this, I now seek your permission to have you stand as the next of kin to late Engineer Jerry Wegner so that the fund of Thirty five million five hundred thousand u.s dollars, would be released and paid into your account as the beneficiary next of kin. All documents to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out from this bank by me.SECURITY FOR THE TRANSACTION: Every document in relation to this business shall be gathered in your presence and destroyed and all computer information will be wiped out from the system to avoid any trace now or in the future. I assure you 100% risk free transaction .We have agreed to work out reasonable percentage of the total amount to you as we may agree. If this proposal is acceptable to you, then take advantage of the trust we have bestowed on you and kindly get back to me immediately through this e-mail address (private), as we progress, I will furnish to you everything about my person plus copies of my international passport for you to know whom you are dealing with. Please if you are not willing to help, kindly keep this business highly confidential. We assure you of the fund to your account within 48 hours. Best regardsgreg D. nabanto,
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