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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: STEVEN BARCLAY <stev_clay@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 02:26:56 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Business Relationship
Attention: Sir,
My name is Mr Steven Barclays, Manager, Credit and Foreign bills of Agricultural Development Bank of Ghana. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our bank with account number -908-14-255-114 whose name is Cho, Kwiyoung(Mr.), an American citizen who died in a plane crash[Korean Air Flight 801] with the whole passengers on board on August 6,1997. And for your perusal you can view this web site http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list
Since the demise of this customer, I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$26.5M (Twenty Six Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which has been with our branch for a very long time. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the Next of Kin as no one has come up as his next of kin. And the banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than twelve years, because the money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed fund after this period.
In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal when i was making a research on a foreigner in which to use in this great opportunity. For your assistant I am willing to give you 25% of the total amount. Upon the receipt of your response, I will send you by fax or e-mail the letter of application which you will type sign and send back to our bank to enable us start this processing of this claim.I will not fail to bring to your notice the fact that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for the smooth and easy transfer of this fund has been finalized, this transaction will be completed within five banking days of receiving your response, after you apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased. When you receive this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail signifying your decision. Please include your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication on my personal email address: stev_clay@yahoo.com or
i1t2u3a4@hotmail.com
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT BE ATTENDED TO. KINDLY CONTACT YOUR FIDUCIARY
Yours Sincerely,
Mr Steven Barclays
Manager Credit and Foreign Bills
Agricultural Development Bank of Ghana
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