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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: =?utf-8?q?Maria=20Clot?= <clot.maria@yahoo.com.co>
Reply-To: clotmaria@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:52:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE
¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:clot.maria@yahoo.com.co
- Hello My Dear Friend!, How are you doing?Hope you doing good?I am sending you this massage with alot of tears right in my heart,I was tricked on Migente.com,is a dating site which i met a Guy from Africa and we have been chating together for years,I told him all about me. I lost my parents years back,They both involved in plane crash in West Africa.Because my father was an International Business Man,Whose travel to alot of petrolum owned country.He later finally reside in West Africa(NIGERIAN)Due to his business,And being the only duagther and the child i spend all my life in USA.Infact just to cut the whole stories short,It was when i travelled for my Late parents final funeral that i met with this Nigeria Guy one on one after we have been dating for years online.But after the funeral i was told by my father's lawyer that my father left a WILL for me as the only child that i have to stay here and take care of his properties and other belonging.Also with the couple of fact that i have a boy friend here and i like him,He promised getting married to me so i was really happy to stay here with him,But along the line i notice that all he is after is my late father properties,He had to put all my late father properties on sale and he sold everything that he want to start a new business.He will not allowed me to have access to anything he is doing,If i ask him anything concerning the money he will promise to kill me here in Africa and Nobody will question him.As I've discussed what brought me here from the United States to Nigerian.Also i want you to know that my father deposited the total sum of $4.500,000.00 in travelling 2 boxes and deposited it with a Security/Insurance Company.My late father's Lawyer gave me the Deposited certificate and other details to contact the Security Company anytime i needs to cleared the luggages, I have left my ex-boyfriends apartment without notifying him,I am in a hide out where i lodge in hotel in other to be safe,As you know i'm a foreigner here and it is absolutely danger for me here,So that is why i need your gesture assistance. This is how i want you to help me,I have funds hidden from the guy here in West Africa and i've left his apartment as i have said erlier For me not getting setup by him,i had to act fast for safety.So, I want the boxes sent to you while i catch up with you as soon as it is been delivered to you while I come over to meet you and we can meet physically and sort things out together.Every arrangement for the delivery is kinda perfect, I have obtained customs papers for private freight and there are seals on the box showing that it is a private delivery and check performed, it is free from customs checks, it will be delivered at your door step by the diplomats of the security company, you do not need to burn out to receive it. And the boxes have security codes lock known to me only, only me can open the boxes, except if I tell anyone the Code, so the Boxes cannot be opened on the Way of delivery to you. Therefore, I want you to contact me as soon as possible, so that I can give you all my deposit details and information for you to make the Clearance from the Security Company as my fiancee who is to receive my late father's Luggages in the USA. And once the boxes gets to you, I will let you know the key-lock codes to open the boxes and the instructions, then you can open the boxes in order to have some money sent to me money for my flight to the Usa....Once I get there, we shall invest the money together and sort things together, provided you will not disappoint neither taking advantage of me. I hereby promise 30% of the total fund for you to meet any personal needs and I can get something done with the balance. I am counting on you with trust and I will appreciate your trust towards this and hoping to hear from you and to meet you inperson. Let me hear you as soon as possible, so that I can give you the deposit details and the contact of the security company to arrange the shipment asap Hope to read from you soon. Maria Clot.
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