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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: jacob nana <jacobnana2121@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <jacobnana@myway.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:19:24 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP
Dear FriendMy name is Mr Jacob Nana, I am the regional managerof Standard Chartered bank of Ghana Ltd Madina branch in thegreater Accra region of Ghana. I got your information on a recentbank conference with other West African countries held in Lome thecapital city of Togo in West Africa. I write you this proposal in good faith;I am 57 years old married with five children, I am a devoted Christian and a man of peace.I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and me, as the regional manager of the Standard Chartered bank it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each business year.On the course of 2006 business report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made five million three hundred and fifty thousand united state dollars ($5,350,000.00) which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this funds on what we call escrow call account with no beneficiary. As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connectedto this money, so my aim of contacting you is to assist mereceive this money in your bank account and get 35% of the totalfunds as commission.There are practically no risks involved, it will be a bank-to-bank transfer and all I need from you is to stand and claim as the original depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much.so that we can go over the details.You can contact me with me email address below:jacobnana@myway.com,Thank you in advance and May God bless you and your family.Yours trulyMr Jacob Nana
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