Subject: Urgent Appeal For Assistance

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 07:43:55 -0400

DEAR FRIEND,
I  AM MR. JOHN COLEMAN AND MY SISTER IS MISS ROSE COLEMAN, WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF LATE  CHIEF PAUL COLEMAN FROM SIERRA LEONE. I AM WRITING YOU IN ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE PRIMARILY TO SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE TO TRANSFER  OUR CASH OF TWENTY ONE MILLION DOLLARS($21,000,000.00) NOW IN COSTUDY OF A PRIVATE SECURITY FIRM IN EUROPE .THE MONEY IS IN TWO TRUNK BOXES DEPOSITED AND DECLARED AS FAMILY VALUABLES BY MY LATE FATHER. AS A MATTER OF FACT THE COMPANY DOES NOT KNOW THE CONTENT AS MONEY, ALTHOUGH MY FATHER MADE THEM UNDERSTAND THAT THE BOXES BELONG TO HIS FOREIGN PARTNER. 

SOURCE OF THE MONEY:

MY LATE FATHER,CHIEF PAUL COLEMAN,A NATIVE OF MENDE DESTRICT IN NORTHERN SIERRA LEONE,WAS THE GENERAL MANAGER OF SIERRA LEONE MINNING COOPERATION(S.L.M.C)FREETOWN.ACCORDING TO MY FATHER,THIS MONEY WAS THE INCOME ACCRUED FROM THE MINNING COOPERATION’S OVERDRAFT AND MINOR SALES.
 
BEFORE THE PEAK OF THE CIVIL WAR BETWEEN THE REBEL FORCES OF MAJOR PAUL KOROMA AND THE COMBINED FORCES OF “ECOMOG” PEACE KEEPING OPERATION THAT ALMOST DESTROYED MY COUNTRY,   FOLLOWING THE FORCES REMOVAL FROM  POWER THE ELECTED CIVILIAN PRESIDENT AHMED TEJAN KABBAH BY THE REBELS. MY FATHER HAD ALREADY MADE ARRANGEMENT FOR HIS FAMILY ,THAT IS ME, MY JUNIOR SISTER AND MY MOTHER,TO BE EVACUATED TO THE NETHERLANDS(HOLLAND),THRUOGH THE AID OF THE U.N EVACUATION TEAM, WITH THE CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT HE MADE WITH THE SECURITY COMPANY.
 
DURING THE CIVIL WAR IN MY COUNTRY,AND FOLLOWING THE INDICSRIMINATE LOOTING OF GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC PROPERTIES BY THE REBEL FORCES,THE SIERRA LEONE MINING COOPERATION WAS ONE OF THE TARGETS LOOTED AND DESTROYED.MY FATHER AND SOME OTHER TOP GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONARIES WERE ATTACKED AND LILLED BY THE REBELS IN NOVEMBER 2000 BECAUSE OF HIS RELATIOSHIP WITH THE CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT OF AHMED TEJAN KABBAH  

AS A RESULT OF MY FATHER’S DEATH,AND WITH THE NEWS OF MY UNCLE’S INVOLEMENT IN A PLANE CRASH IN JANUARY IT DASHED OUR HOPE OF SURVIVAL.THESE BAD NEWS RESULTED TO MY MOTHER’S HEART FAILURE  AND COMPLICATIONS LATER LEAD TO HER DEATH. I AND MY 18YEAR OLD SISTER ARE NOW LEFT ALONE IN THIS STRANGE LAND.WE ARE NOT ONLY REFUGEES ,BUT, OPHANS