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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: Johnson Bugie <ww_jjohn@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: dr_johnsonbugie@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 00:44:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT:::
It is my pleasure to seek for your assistance. This proposal is real and I want you to consider it very important.This is an opportunity I cannot afford to loose in life.
Briefly I am Mr.Johnson Bugie. the manager Bill and exchange of the foreign remittance department of PRUDENT INTERNATIONAL BANK LOME-TOGO.
In my departement,I discovered an invoice sum of $18.5 million US dollars(Eighteen million five hundred thounsand US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer, who died along with his entire family On the 26th of December 2003, his wife and only daughter travelled to his wife country IRAN for a holiday and unfotunantely they were involved in an Earthquake which occoured in Bam on the 26th of December 2003 in IRAN which claim about 25 thausand lives in the Earthquake .
Since I got informations about his death,I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody applies for it as his next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guide lines and laws. But unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him in the Earthquake,leaving nobody behind for the claim, it is therefore upon this discovery that I now, wish to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent this disbusement since nobody is comming for it and I do not want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed.
The bank law and guide line here stipulated that if such money remained unclaimed after four years,the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request for foreigner as next of kin in this business is accasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an indigene cannot stand as next of kin to this family I therefore wish to contact you and seek for your assistance, to help me claim this money from the bank and transfer it into your company account or private account. You will equaly make an arrangement for me to visit your country for disbursement after the money must have been transfered.
For all the pains and assistance I am offering you 25% of the total money.Another 5% will be for any expenses both local and international. 70% will be for me and my family. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged you must apply first to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased,indicating your bank name,your bank account number,your private telephone and the fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the money will be remitted.
I will not fell to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all require arrangemnts have been made for the transfer,but should be confidential. You should please contact me immediately as soon as you go through the message.In the hope that we can enter into a good business venture.
Best Regards,
Mr.Johnson Bugie.
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