Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
Habib Coleh and the Cocoa Merchants (2006)
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From: Habib Koleh habibkoleh@yahoo.com
Date: Apr 15, 2006 8:37 PM
Subject: My Dear
My Dear
i thank you for your email may you remain blessed,my name is habib coleh Am 18 yrs old a citizen of Cote divoire and the only son of late Mr and Mrs coleh. My late parents were killed by the rebels in my home town Bouake the second economic capital of Cote D’ivoire during the recent political crisis on 2nd January 2006.
My Father was a cocoa merchant and my mother was a staff in the military hospital here in my country before sad and ugly ivent that happend which is almost ruining my life.the incident happend After my fathers business trip from Antwerp Belgium . A Week after he came back to Bouake , he was attacked with my mother by the rebels, which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in hospital on that fateful afternoon.27TH January 2006
I didn’t know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my mother. But before he gave up the ghost in the hospital which he was recieving treatment, He disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of $58,830,000,00 US Dollars in a bank here in Abidjan-Cote d’ivoire for the purchase of cocoa processing machine and instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy partner to help me transfer this money out and leave this country because of my safety saying that he made an agreement with the bank and signed by his lawyer that i will present to the bank his foriegn partner,hence I contacted you. I am in a sincere desire of your truthfullness and trust so that i can live this country for my safety. I am urgently soliciting for your assistance to help me to transfer this money out from Abidjan to a safe account abroad in your care so that we will invest it in any business in your country because this is my only hope in life down here my education has been tampered i dont even go to school any more and my fathers relatives claimed my fathers other big investements and treatend to kill me if i had said any thing.
Awaiting anxiously to hear from you as soon as possible and i beg of you to keep this matter in confidence because of my safety and condition.
Yours sincerely,
Habib
