Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
Ashia Usman and Alahaji Mohammed (2006)
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From: Miss Ashia Usman ashiatu_usm11@yahoo.com
Reply-To: ashiatu_usm4@yahoo.com
Date: Apr 13, 2006 2:27 PM
Subject: Hello From Ashia Usman, I Need Your Assistance
My Dear,
Good day to you, I hope fine, dear am writing this mail with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously I am asking for your assistance,i have gone through your profile and will be very glad if you can render me assistance to my situation now.
I will make my proposal well known if I am given the opportunity. I would like to use this opportunity to introduce my self to you. I am ASHIA USMAN, A 20 years old girl from Liberia, the only daughter of Late ALAHAJI. MOHAMMED USMAN, my father is souses fly farmer and business man in my country.my father deals in COCO and he have a very big farm of COCO.
My father, mother and two of my sister die in motor accident when taking them to school and i was lift with my brother HASSAN USMAN. The main reason why I am contacting you now is to seek your assitance in the area of future investment and also my father lift some huge amount of money for us.
This money is Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars which was deposited some years ago by my father he made me the sole beneficiary/next of kin to the money. I am now asking you to stand on my behalf to make this claim for the finance company, I am a girl and too young in age i can’t handle this can of transaction, i want you to stand as my foreign partner oversea and also to help me investment the money. I will give you details about the deposit as you respond to my request. I have all original copies of the documents concerning this money with me here, So please am expecting to hear from you soon.
Please, Reply Me In My Private Mail Box: (ashiatu_usm@yahoo.com)
Yours Truly,
ASHIA USMAN.
