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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: Mathew Ejeayor <matayor21@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: matayor20@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:03:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: ATTENTION PLEASE
MY GOOD FRIEND,
(TRANSFER OF US$26 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT)
Greetings to you,
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious.I am MR MATHEW EJEAYOR,Auditor, with Accounting Department,Ecobank Intl here in Accra Ghana. I am writing following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.I have decided to contact you purely on the personal conviction of trust and confidence that we can co-operate with one another and do a very lucrative business for our mutual benefit.
The Business I am proposing to you is in respect of the sum of US$26,000,000.00(Twenty Six Million United States Dollars Only) deposited in Dollar account with my bank which belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya,East Africa,the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY,a citizen of Atlanta,United States of America. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site.http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD /africa/07/20/kenya.crash /index.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his 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. Unfortunately I learn t that his supposed next of kin being his wife died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this department now decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained after six (6) years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds. We agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our watchword in this transaction.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive this mail you should contact me by return mail.Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you shall been finalized. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response. Please in your response include your following informations below:
Your Full Name:
Your Complete Address:
Nationality:
Date of Birth:
Direct Telephone Number:
Yours Sincerely,
Mr Mathew Ejeayor
NB: Kindly get back to me through my alternate email:matayor20@yahoo.com
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