Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
Fatima Ali / Republic of Benin (2005)
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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:43:23 +0100 (BST)
From: FATIMA ALI fati_ali2005@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME
My Dear Friend
I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not
know before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation.
You should please consider the transaction on its content and not the
fact that you have not known me before. I nee d not dwell on how I
came by your contact information because there are many such
possibilities these days. I would like to introduce myself as Mrs.
Fatima Ali, of Repulic of Benin, widow to Late Mr. Usman Ali (fomer
Consular of the Benin Embassy in Madrid, Spain). I have been recently
been daigonosed of Cancer of the Pelvics. I am writing from my sick
bed. There is this US$9.8Million my husband has in an account with the
Financial Bank, Benin of which I am the next of kin. With my health
condition and because my husband and I have no children, I am looking
for a credible person to whom I will pass the righ t of next of kin.
This person will apply to the bank and request for the transfer of the
fund to his/her bank account.
This is on the condition that you will take 25% of the fund for
yourself, 5% used for expenses, while you will use the remaining 70%
for the less previlege people in the society. This is in fulfilment of
the last request of my husband: that a substantial part of the fund be
used to carter for the less previleged,also to donate for the relief
of Tsunami Survivors If this condition is acceptable to you, you
should contact me immediately with your full names and contact
information so that I will ask our family lawyer to prepare the
authorization that will give you the right of next of kin to the
account in the bank. I will also give you a text of the application
you are to send to the bank.
I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be
transfered into your account, but you should please ensure that the
fund is used as i have described above. I look forward to your
response.
Yours,
Mrs. Fatima Ali
