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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: <faithowen0009@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 22:02:57 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Faith Owen
Marcory Ste Therese
Abidjan, Cote d' Ivoire.
West Africa.
Dearest one,
My name is Miss Faith Owen 22years and my younger brother Henry Owen17years we are the only children of our late parents Mr.and Mrs. Solomon Owen who died on their way to Ghana,along with my two younger ones on January 20th 2008, I really know that it's the home problem that lead my parents to
untimely death, my father have no peace because of his bad brothers who dislike him for no reason,
i am afraid of my father brothers they are the cause of my family death,
My dad was a farmer (a cocoa merchant ) based in Cote D'ivoire during his days, and he told me that he deposited the sum of ($3.700.000)
three million and seven hundred thousand US dollars. which he deposited in one of the bank here in Abidjan, he used my name as his first daugther for the next of kin, for depositing of the money.
I and my younger brother have decided to change our location so that we will not be harm by our father bad brothers since they have taken all our late father's properties including houses and cars according to their cloud tradition and out of wickedness, but they are not aware about this money
and they will never know. as that is the only hope of our survival
.
Please i am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
(1) To serve as a guardian of this fund since i am 22years old and my younger
one is only 17,
(2)To provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to,
(3) To make an arrangement for us to migrate over to your country to further our education,(4)To help us find a better company where we can invest the money into,as that was our late father's aim before he died.
Moreover, i am willing to offer you 13% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/ input after the successful transfer of this money into your nominated account in your country,
I want you to indicate your options towards assisting us as we believe that this transaction would be concluded within seven (7) days you signify interest to assist us because our present condition here in africa is really bad. I will forward all the necessary and legal documents backing up this
transaction and making it legitimate to you as soon as I hear from you.
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Best regards,
Miss Faith and Henry Owen.
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