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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: ALBERT MUMBIA <almumbia064@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <albtmumbia02@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:04:43 +0200
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT COOPERATION
GOODDAY, With due respect,I am MR ALBERT MUMBIA the director in charge of audit and accounts unit,foreign remittance dept. of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB),COTONOU, REPUBLIC OF BENIN IN WEST AFRICA. I decided to contact you for a beneficial and risk-free business transaction. During our auditing and investigations in this bank, my department ame across the sum of FIFTEEN MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$15,520,000.00)only belonging to an international business man who died along with his family on the 31st October 1999 in a plane crash,in an Egyptian airline(Egypt - Air) 990 - with other passengers on board. On 4th of May 1999, he made a numbered time(fixed) deposit for twelve calendar valued at ( FIFTEEN MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in my branch. Upon maturity, a routine notification was forwarded to his contact address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contact employees that he died in auto crash along with his entire family on the 31st October 1999 in a plane crash, belonging to an Egyptian airline(Egypt - Air) 990 - with other passengers on board Before our discovery of this development,there was no trace of claim from any person as the fund remains dormant in his account with this bank and the interest is being rolled over along the principal sum at the end of each year. Although I keep this information secret within my jurisdiction to enable us put claims and transfer the said amount through a trustworthy friend in overseas whom we shall indirectly present to the bank as the bonafide next-of-kin to the deceased Because after this year the money will be called back to the bank's treasury account as unclaimed bills and the money will be shared amongst the directors of the bank. So it is on this note i decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to his funds rather than allow the bank directors to share this money amongst them at the end of the year. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contacted you.At this junture I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased customer, so that the procceeds of this account will be paid into your account, either new or old you will provide. Meanwhile, all the arrangments to put claims as the bonafide next-of-kin to the deceased,to get the required approval and transfer of this money to a foreign account has been put in place, all we need to do is secretly programme your information to The required places here in the bank as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds . All the directives and the needed information will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your intrest and willingness.Infact, we could have done this alone but because as civil servants we are not legally allowed to operate foreign account and it would eventually raise an eyebrow on our side during the time of transfer because we are staff of the bank. These are the actual reasons why it requires a second-fellow who will forward claims by our indirect support as the bonafide next-of-kin.And also present a foreign bank account(Old or New account)where the money will be re-transfered into. On conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 25% of the total sum as gratification, 5% of the total sum will be set aside for contingency, while 70% will be for me and my partners here. Please you have been advised to keep top secret as we are still in service and intend to retire from service after we conclude this with you.we will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank until you confirm the money in your account, We then come down to your country for subsequent sharing of the fund according to the percentages indicated above, and for investment in any country you may advise us. All other necessary information will be sent to you when i receive an email response from you or a telephone call on: 00229-97-274642. Yours Sincerely, Albert.
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