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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: "Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu"<farooqibn_58@msn.com>
Reply-To: <transaction1967@sify.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:48:36 +0100
Subject: ORJI UZOR KALU
Sir,
I am Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor in one of the eastern states in Nigeria from 1999 to 2007.
I am in desperate need of your help, I got your email address from a friend in the Nigerian Foreign Affairs Ministry, I made some money while in office, and the total sum of Twenty Nine Million, Nine Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only (US$29,900,000.00). For more information about my profile, please take your time to visit my official website at www.orjikalu.com.
I have successfully moved this fund to a Security and finance institution in London, UK through the assistance of one my former aide, who is now the new Director-General (DG) of the Nigerian Diplomatic Courier. The fund was deposited with the finance institution as "Family Treasure" and in a trunk box, marked diplomatic luggage, and it was deposited with a foreign name, Mr. Raul Thompson as the beneficiary to avoid being traced by the present government of my country.
I cannot front any of my relative(s) or aides for the claim of this fund from the finance institution since it was deposited with a foreign name as the beneficiary, neither will I front myself, as I'm being monitored by the Anti-graft Agency of my country. Hence, my decision to solicit for your assistance in this regard in order to front you as the trustee to Mr. Raul Thompson on whose name the fund was deposited.
Upon your acceptance of my proposal, I shall have my family attorney contact you for further directives on how to effect the change of your name to read the beneficiary of this fund, which shall facilitate the claim on your name as the trustee to Mr. Raul Thompson, and you shall be duly advice on how to spilt the fund into several accounts in your country when transferred to you.
I have considerably agreed to give you 25% of this fund as a compensation for whatever assistance that you shall give in this regard, 10% set aside to take care of whatever expenses that we may likely incure at the course of retrieving the fund and the transfer to you, while the remaining 65% shall remain in an account that you shall set up in your country pending when I shall need it.
I do hope that I can trust you with this fund, as it is entirely all I have left, which I plan to use during my presidential campaign in 2011. And most importantly, if this transaction is executed successfully, I shall have you come over to Nigeria for other business negotiations, especially on the issue of my private business empire.
In your response, please do not forget to provide your full name(s), address, phone number and any copy of your identification, as required by my family attorney for the facilitation of the necessary paper works.
Thanks in advance.
Yours faithfully,
ORJI UZOR KALU
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