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419 scams Dear Friend, My name is Johnson Gilbert Muthusamy, a legal Practitioner in Malaysia. I had a British client who happens to be mining contractor in Malaysia. My late client bears last the same name with you. He died as the result his heart condition on March 12th 2005. His heart condition was due to the death of all the members of his family in the tsunami disaster on the 26th December 2004 in Sumatra Indonesia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake for more information. My late Client has a deposit of Ten Million One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars deposited in one of the leading banks in Malaysia ($10, 100, 000. 00) This s amount has been in a dormant account for many years. I can present you as my late client’s next of kin as you bear a similar name with him. My late client did not indicate any next of kin during the period of this deposit and according to the laws of Malaysia; the fund will be diverted to the government treasury as surplus revenue...

419 scams FROM: MR. AMARA ABEDI I am Mr. Amara Abedi, the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of Bank of Africa, Ouagadougou Burkina Faso West Africa. With due respect and regard, I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction. During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased person who died on 31rst January 2000 in a plane crash and the fund has been dormant in his account with this Bank without any claim of the fund in our custody either from his family or relation before our discovery to this development. The said amount was (EIGHTEEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS. ($18,000,000.00)Meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put the claim over this fund as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign account has been put in place and directives and needed ...

419 scams I have a secured Business proposal for you. If you are interested please reach me on my Private email address below: (changkalina@yahoo.com.hk) for more details of my Business Proposal. FROM THE DESK OF MR.MAHAMA SANKARA, THE SENIOR AUDITOR INCHARGE FORIEGN REMITTANCE UNIT, BANQUE COMMERCIALE DU BURKINA (BCB).OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO ASSALAM-ALYKUM I PRESUMED THAT ALL IS WELL WITH YOU AND YOU’RE FAMILY. PLEASE LET THIS NOT BE A SURPRISED MESSAGE TO YOU BECAUSE I GOT YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION FROM THE INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY, FEW WEEKS AGO BEFORE I DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU ON THIS MAGNITUDE AND LUCRATIVE TRANSACTION FOR OUR PRESENT AND FUTURE SURVIVAL IN LIFE. MOREOVER, I HAVE LAID ALL THE SOLEMN TRUST IN YOU BEFORE I DECIDED TO DISCLOSE THIS SUCCSSFUL AND CONFIDENTIAL TRANSACTION TO YOU.I AM THE SENIOR AUDITOR INCHARGE OF FORIEGN REMITTANCE UNIT OF OUR BANK HERE IN (OUAGADOUGOU) BURKINA FASO AND I DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU FOR THIS FINANCIAL TRANSACTION WORTH SEVENTEEN ...

419 scams United Nations Economic & Social Council 760 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA. RE: DOCKET NO. OP1911. FINAL NOTIFICATION OF YOUR PAYMENT FUND VALUED AT USD$15.5 MILLION DOLLARS ONLY. Dear BENEFICIARY, We have been informed to notify you that your payment of US$15.5 Million Dollars Financial Service Authority recovered from a Bank in London, UK as Unclaimed Fund belonging to you as Inheritance Fund OR Winning Fund with Accrued interest OR Compensation grant from United Nations, has been approved and ready to be released to you by the newly opened African Investment Bank, USA with Payment Identification Release Code BOE1700. You are urgently advised to contact the Manager of African Investment Bank, USA, Mr. Abdul Rahman on his open access email: Message@fastwebmail.it and send him your Payment Identification Release Code BOE1700 to enable him release your US$15.5 Million Dollars to you. Lastly you are warned to STOP any communications you have wit...

419 scams Dear Sir, Greetings and peace from Allah. I am Hon.Usm4n mustapha, a former top government official in Nigeria. I have a serious issue that i want to share with you, and i will be needing your help. As a former top government official, a conspiracy was set against my political career, recently i have serious problems with Mr President because of an allegation of missing of public funds during my administration in the office as finance minister. My properties and bank accounts in Nigeria and outside Nigeria has been frozen by Mr. President and i have been Charged to court. I don’t know if i will be jailed if found convicted, because in my country, the judiciary is very corrupt, so justice is perverted and as such one should expect the worst violation of human right and justice. But my lawyers are doing their best so that i don’t get sentenced to Jail. Please i need your help to keep an amount of 35 million dollars that is presently in a financial instit...

419 scams Dear Friend, I understand that through the Internet is not the best way to link up with you because of the confidentiality which my proposal demands due to Crisis we have in Middle East. I worked as a financial adviser to Ben Ali. Coincidentally, an investor who is associated to the deposed Tunisian President (Ben Ali) approached me seeking my expertise in investing US$69 million discretely in diverse project. I have one concern / dilemma, which is “the origin of this investor funds is of concern to me”. This is why I have decided to contact you for this because my name is already associated with our past ruler.All we need now is your urgent assistance in claiming this fund in a very Legitimate and confidential process.What will be your share of this funds will be put on the table for discussion and will be agreed if it is okay for us.This investor would like to invest this funds in profitable projects based on your advise and will look into whatever you suggest.You might be ...

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419 scams From: Mr. James Zola Tell: +27- 797-521-191 Fax: +27- 862-925-358 First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. I am a high placed official working with Department of Finance (& Economic Affairs), in Cape Town South Africa. I and two other colleagues are currently in need of a silent foreign partner whose identity we can use to transfer the sum of Sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S. dollars. This fund accrued legitimately to us as commission from foreign contracts, through our private connections. The fund is presently waiting to be remitted from FIRST NATIONAL BANK (FNB) here in South Africa to any overseas beneficiary confirmed by us as associate/receiver. By virtue of our positions as civil servants in my country, we cannot acquire this money in our names. Because as high placed civil servants, we are not allowed by the civil service code of conduct to own or operate bank accounts outside of our shores. On the other hand, it is not safe ...

419 scams From the Desk of Engr. Khumalo F. Director, Project Implementation DIRECT TEL: +27 78 585 7686 Email: frank1khumalo@gala.net DEPARTMENT OF MINERALS AND ENERGY Mineral Centre, 234 Visagie Street, Pretoria 0001 RSA. URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL Good day! I know this mail will come to you as a surprise, please do not be sceptical as it’s for good intention. It’s after my official enquiry from the foreign trade office of the chambers of commerce & industry here in Johannesburg South Africa that I decided to contact you but I did not disclose the intention to anyone else because of the delicate nature of the project. I found your profile very interesting and decided to reach you directly to solicit for your assistance and guidelines in making a business investment and transfer of US$24,000,000.00 (Twenty Four Million Dollars) to your country within the next few days Please I must plead for your confidence in this transaction. I am a high placed official working with D...

419 scams Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division. Federal Bureau Of Investigation. J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc Attention Beneficiary. Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery, Compensation, Contract payment and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitoring Unit we have also noticed that for few months ago you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Mr. Sanusi of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Tunde Sulaiman of Chevron, Mr. John J. McCloy of World Bank, Mr. Ban Ki-moon of United Nations, President Goodluck Jonathan of Federal republic of Nigeria, Barrack Obama of United States, Sir Win Bischoff of foriegn exchange, Farida Waziri of EFCC, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Su...

419 scams From Mr. Akbar Sheikh , How Are You? I Know That This Mail May Come To You Almost A Surprise As We Never Met Before And Please Before You Proceed Reading This mail, This Is True and not A Joke, Well I Saw Your Contact Email From Burkina Faso Chambers Of Commerce, After Much Consideration I Decided To Write You Since I Cannot Be Able To See You Face To Face For Now, At First I Strongly Believed That Any Information Received From The Chambers Of Commerce Office Is Correct And Must Be Trusted. But Never Mind, I Am from (Burkina Faso West Africa) Mr. Akbar Sheikh  by Name, an Auditing Debt Manager in Our Bank Here (Bank of Africa). I Have An Opportunity To The Sum Of Four Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$4.500, 000.00), To Transfer Into Your Nominated Bank Account (The Owner Of The Money) Is An. IRAQ. Who Died A Long With His Entire Family During The Iraq War, Upon Your Reply And Interest To Receive This Fund On My Behalf, I Will Kindly Send You More D...

419 scams From the Desk of Executive Director, South African Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. Email: mrfrankabbott@rocketmail.com My Dear Good Friend, Greetings to you in the name of our heavenly God, This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into your mind; but please, consider it as a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility. My name is Mr. Frank Abbott; I am the of Executive Director South African Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. The crux of this letter is that the Finance/Contract Department of the South African Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd (SAHGMC) deliberately over-inflated the contract values of various contract awarded. I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account. In the course of disbursement my office was able to track down the sum of US$35M (Thirty Five Million U.S Dollars) ...

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419 scams Dear Friend, This message might meet you in utmost surprise; however, it’s just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I am a banker by profession from Burkina Faso in West Africa and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank. I have the opportunity of transferring the left over funds ($7.2million) of one of my bank clients who died along with his entire family on 31 July 2000 in a plane crash. You can confirm the genuiness of the deceased death by clicking on this web site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm Hence, I am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared between us in the ratio of 60/40. Send your private phone number to call you, If you agree to my business proposal. Further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return mail. Have a great day.    Your Faithfully Mr Traore Bana Age: 57 years. Home Address...

419 scams FROM MRS. ROSE MODUSE /INVESTMENT PROPOSAL Attention: Sir/Madam You may be surprised to receive this strange letter from me. I am Mrs. Rose Moduse; the wife of Mr. Paul Moduse of Zimbabwe. I got your address from the world web yellow address page. After due consideration from your profile, I became aware and assured of your credibility to help me. My husband was among the rich farmers in Zimbabwe who were murdered in cold blood by the agent of the ruling government of President Robert Mugabe because my husband was against the method adopted by the government on new land reform act that wholly affected the farmers in Zimbabwe. Before the Invasion, my husband took me to South Africa as if he foresaw the looming danger in Zimbabwe and deposited USD$20Million(Twenty Million United States Dollars) with a security and finance company in South Africa as a Family Valuables. This money was for buying farm lands in Lesotho, Swaziland, and also machinery for the farm. Heads of governmen...

419 scams FROM MR.ANDERSON MARTINS JOHANNESBURG, 2001 REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA. Reply via Email:family.firms@live.co.za Or Email:family.firms@rediffmail.com Phone +27 83 731 7644 STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL Attn: Ceo/Md., You may be surprised to receive this letter from me since you do not know me Personally. I am Mr. Anderson Martins, the first Son of Mr. Philip Martins, who was recently murdered in the land dispute in Zimbabwe. I got your contact on the American Network online/trade Journal, and decided to write you. Before the death of my Father, He had taken me to Republic of South Africa, for annual year holiday in (2002) during his holiday he deposited the sum of US$25.500, 000.00 (Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), in one of the private security companies, as if He foresaw the looming danger in Zimbabwe. This money was deposited in a box as germ stones to avoid much demurrage from the Security Company; this amount was meant for the purchase of new machin...

419 scams Dear Sir/Madam, This is my fifth times of writting you this email since last year till date but no response from you.Hope you get this one, as this is a personal email directed to you. My wife and I won a Jackpot Lotteryof $11.3 million in July and have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of $500,000.00 USD to you as part of our own charity project to improve the lot of 10 lucky individuals all over the world. If you have received this email then you are one of the lucky recipients and all you have to do is get back with us so that we can send your details to the payout bank.Please note that you have to contact my private email for more informations{allenvioletlarge2@ozledim.net) You can verify this by visiting the web pages below. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326473/Canadian-couple-Allen-Violet-Large-away-entire-11-2m-lottery-win.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/11/04/ns-allen-violet-large-lottery-winning.html Goodluck, Allen ...

419 scams Dear Beloved, I am fatima Ajua from Angola. I am the only surviving Daughter of Late Dr and Mrs Ahmed Ajua,my Father worked with Chevron Corporation for twenty years before he died in a motor accident with my mother in the year 2008. My late Father deposited the sum of $7.5 Million (seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) with a bank here in Ghana. Recently,my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the stroke and cancerous problems I am suffering from. I have decided to donate this fund to you and want you to use this gift which comes from my late fathers effort to fund the upkeep of widows and charities worldwide. Please i need you to send to me the following information’s 1.your full Name. 2.Your private phone and fax number 3) your age and your occupation 4) Any Scan copy of your ID I took this decision because I do not have any direct brother or sister that will inherit this money and my fathers relations are bourgeois and very wealthy persons an...

419 scams Good Day I am Personal attorney to Dr.T.M,who died with his family as a result of gas explosion. After all investigation even with the relevant embassy has yielded no results showing that there is no living next of kin. I try to track any of his relatives on this site , Heance I contacted you. I hereby solicit for your immediate response and positive committed efforts to facilitate the fund remittal of total sum $11.6m before they get confiscated by the finance company. This fund was left behind with a finance company by my late client. Upon your positive response to this covenant,I will make all necessary information known to you. Kindly email me through this email address (urukubong1attorney@gmail.com) for more information Yours  Greetings From Mrs Ladan Conroy After going through your information over the internet i decided to contact you for friendship and assistance for distribution of my inheritance towards charity. My name is Mrs Ladan Conroy; I am a dyin...

419 scams I would like to discuss a business opportunity that offers the potential for high returns. I work for a manufacturing company, which at this time requires a product vital to its processing operations, at a price significantly above the manufacturing cost. In my proposed business partnership, you would fill the role of stand-in supplier, providing this key material while keeping the same profit margins. My role would be to introduce you to my company as the supplier and to establish a contract between you and my employer. Please send a return email verifying your contact number and to arrange the most convenient time to discuss these possibilities in detail.  I look forward to speaking with you soon. Send reply message directly to b.crawford@companymailer.ca as it is connected to my mobile phone and is my preferred email. Best

419 scams MISS FELICIA JOHNSON AUDITOR GENERAL DEAR, RE: TRANSFER OF US$15.200.000 00 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT. I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business. Though this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest medium of communication. However, this correspondence is private, and it should be treated in strict confidence. At first I will like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and trouble free to both parties, In order to transfer out FIFTEEN MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, (US$15.200 000 00) from our bank here in Burkina Faso The fund for transfer is of clean origin. The owner of the fund is a foreigner, a program leader who was believed to acquire the fund through his secret Crude Oil deal with the Former IRAQ government. The deceased died with all the members of his family in an auto-accident in June 23, 2001 without a WILL. The amount involved is US$15,200,000.0...

In the world of scams, the latest trend is an increase in fake letters claiming to come from the Ministry of Justice. The letters state that the recipient has been identified as being a victim of protection insurance mis-selling, including payment protection insurance (PPI) – if they pass on their account details so a small administration fee can be levied, they are told they will receive a lump sum. It’s often the poorest and indebted, those struggling to pay their bills, who are targeted by fraudsters. But don’t fall for these scams! Read on to find out what the most common ones are and how to avoid being scammed.

419 scams Dear Sir/Madam How are you and your family? Hope all is well. Firstly we the entire citizens of Libya express sincere gratitude to the United Nations, all the organizations and entire Nations of the World that in one way or the other fought for the liberation of Libya people. We also thank the almighty ALLAH for making it possible and pray that he will grant our dear brothers and sisters that lost their lives in the struggle. I know that this mail may come to you as a surprise as it coming from unknown person but all the same it is to appreciate all individual and group that helped to make our dreams a reality and to introduce to the hidden investment opportunities available in Libya . My name is Abdul Wahid Omar a native of Sirte province in Libya the same area with COL MUAMMAR GADDAFI. I have worked in many capacities in his administration and recent during the rumors and early stage of war, he mandated me with other officers to travel to South Africa with one o...

419 scams FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION. COULD YOU PLEASE CONSIDER TO HELP ME TO RELOCATE THIS SUM OF TEN MILLION,THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS(US$10.3m) TO YOUR COUNTRY FOR ESTABLISHING A MEDIUM SIZE INDUSTRY IN YOUR COUNTRY. THE SAID 10.3 MILLION DOLLARS WAS DEPOSITED IN OUR BANK BY MRS JOYCE LAKE AN AMERICA CITIZEN WHO DIED IN A PLANE CRASH IN 2000.WE HAVE TRIED TO CONTACT HER IMMEDIATE FAMILY TO COME FORWARD FOR CLAIMS BUT COULD NOT SUCCEED. WE DISCORVERED THAT THE LATE AMERICAN DIED ALONG SIDE WITH HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HER NEXT OF KIN. I WILL GIVE YOU ALL VITAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE AMERICAN AND THE 10.3MILLION DOLLARS IN OUR CUSTODY SO THAT YOU WILL CONTACT MY BANK FOR THEM TO RELEASE THE MONEY TO YOU. YOU CAN COME HERE IN PERSON OR YOU CAN REQUEST THE BANK TO GIVE YOU THE CONTACT OF THE BANK LAWYER’S WHO CAN REPRESENT YOUR INTREST IN THE TRANSFER PROCESS. I AM ONE OF THE BANK DIRECTORS, I WILL PLAY A ROLE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE 10.3 MIL...

419 scams I am Mr Manhattan Pierson, the chief operating officer with my bank and I want to inform you that an amount of US$10.5 million will be moved on your name as the Foreign Business Partner to our late deceased customer. I need your help to receive this money as we shall share the money in the ratio of 50:50%. You will receive this amount through a bank wire transfer. Please send your full names, direct telephone numbers, and physical address, more details will be given upon your reply. Your quick response will be highly appreciated. Yours sincerely, Mr. Manhattan Pierson (Esq.) I am Mr. James Morgan of the Nigeria Clearing House. I decided to contact you because of the prevailing financial report reaching my office and the intense nature of polity in Nigeria . This is to inform you about our plan to send your fund to you via cash delivery system.This system will be easier for you and for us. We are going to send your payment of ($10.5Million)to you through diplomatic...

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419 scams Hello My Dear One I am writing this mail to you With due respect trust and humanity, i appeal to you to exercise a little patience and read through my letter i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business having gone through your remarkable profile, honestly i am writing this email to you with pains, tears and sorrow from my heart, i will really like to have a good relationship with you and i have a special reason why i decided to contact you, i decided to contact you due to the urgency of my situation, My name is Miss Aracelis Kipkalya, 24yrs old female and I’m from Kenya in East Africa. My father was the former Kenyan road Minister. He and Assistant Minister of Home Affairs Lorna Laboso had been on board the Cessna 210, which was headed to Kericho and crashed in a remote area called Kajong’a, in western Kenya. The plane crashed on the Tuesday 10th, June, 2008. You can read more about the crash through the below site: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/afr...

419 scams Dear Friend, (TOP SECRET) I know this may come as surprise and sceptic to you. My Name Engineer Edikou Siakka, I am one of the officials in the Energy management board in Burkina Faso, West Africa. We had a contract with Denmark through the Burkina Faso Danish Cooperation, which was signed on the 4th of June 2011 on the Electrification of the Urban centres, offices and rural dwellers. The project has been executed, you can check on the website: www.sonabel.bf But, the main issue of contacting you is to intimate you that during the award of this contract, a few of my colleagues and l had inflated the amount of this contract and the OVER- INVOICED is being safeguarded under our custody. However, we have decided to transfer this sum of money, Fourty five million Us dollar ($45million Us Dollar) out of this Country for disbursement. Hence, we seek for a reliable, honest and not greedy foreign partner whom we shall use his or her account for transferring the fund. And...

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Last Friday, Hennigan’s Restaurant in Mount Joy got a peculiar call when a man, who claimed to be hearing impaired, placed an order for 150 salads. Due to his disability, he asked that the rest of the transaction happen online. Despite being skeptical, Cindy Hoover followed along. The man identified himself as John Donovan, and the two of them exchanged emails. Donovan gave Hoover his credit card number with all the important information to buy the salads. But, then he had a strange request: He asked Hoover to charge his card, which ended up being fake, an extra $900. He then wanted her to take that amount, $900 in cash, to a Western Union and deposit it for his delivery man.

419 scams Dear friend, For your kind attention, I will be very glad if you do assist me to relocate a sum of (30 million pounds) to your personal bank account for the benefit of both of us. This is a genuine business transaction, only that I can not operate it alone without using a Foreigner as required in my bank law, therefore I am contacting you to stand before my bank as the beneficiary next of kin of this fund, that is my reason of contacting you in this manner to assist me actualize this better opportunity, also to share the benefit together with me. You will be entitled to have 35% of this fund as a foreign partner, since you will provide a bank account where this money will be transferred to, while 65% will be for me, by indicating your interest on assurance of trust, Send the following information: (a). A Beneficiary name and contact address. (b). Your direct Office Telephone/Mobile. (c). Your Age and occupation. (d). Your ID I will send you the full details and how this busin...

419 scams From Barrister Noeliga Hagan President: Alpha Jurist Chambers Address: C/112 Calavi-Igolo Republique Du Benin Tel: +229 681 318 74 Dear Trusted Friend , I am Barrister Noeliga Hagan , the attorney at law to Late client Michael , who used to work as the Director of Produits petroliers (TOTAL BENIN) in Benin Republic Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the 29th of April 2006, my Client, His wife and their three Children were involved in a car accident near Lome-Gahan express-road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but all efforts was just in vain. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track His last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his Family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my Client before they get confiscated or declared unse...

419 scams  My Dearest In Christ, My Name Is MARIA BONGI NTULI Currently The Deputy Minister Of Social Development Of South Africa. I Have Served In Many Capacities Towards Nation Building. You can view my profile at  www.gov.za  Ro    http://www.info.gov.za/gol/gcis_profile.jsp?id=6450  click on government contact information’s, click on deputy ministry’s and locate Social development and read about me. I am married to late Mr Zuma Ntuli and the marriage lasted for 25years with only a child .My husband died of an illness that lasted for only 6weeks.I Know my mail may come to you as a surprise, reason for we have not seen or meet before. I am soliciting for your help, as I am divinely directed. Before my husband’s death, we were pure born again Christians. When my husband was alive, we deposited the sum of 30.5million USD in a financial institution here in my country, and the fund emanated as a result of an over invoiced contract he did with my fo...

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