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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: simon williams <swprivatemail_esq@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:20:12 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: ATTENTION SIR
From: Simon Williams United Trust Bank Limited
80 Haymarket, London
SW1Y 4TE, and England.
This mail is not intended to cause any embarrassment in whatever form to you but I must solicit your confidentiality, I know a proposal of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that it is sent in good faith.
I am a staff of United Trust Bank Limited, London-England. And I am writing to you
following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of £10.9 million British Pounds Sterling (Ten million nine hundred thousand British Pounds) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost hislife in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.
Since we got the information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that myself and two other officials in this department now decided to contact you, so that we can have you stand in as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after six years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 25% of this money would be for you, while the balance will be for my colleagues and me. I will visit your country for the disbursement according
to the percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and as trust is our watchword, this transaction is
confidential and risk free.
As soon as you receive this mail you should contact me by return mail. Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to
you has been finalized. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.
Please in your response include your full
name, address, telephone/fax numbers for easy
communication
Regards
Mr. Simon Williams
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