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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: marbrowm1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:26:51 -0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?BENEFICIARY=20=20=20NOTIFICATION?=
The Beneficiary,
Estate of Engr. Walter Trevor.
FINAL NOTIFICATION
Please confirm your receipt of this mail because previous hard copy letters
have been sent through your mailing address but we did not get any response
from you. Not to worry, because even if it was intercepted in the course
of postage, no execution will be carried out without the endorsement of
Rev. Father Winter Charles and me the attorney for the execution.
On-behalf of the Trustees and Executors of the Will of late of Engr. Walter
Trevor (ksm), I wish to notify you that you were listed as a beneficiary
to the bequest of the sum of US$1.3M [One Million Three Hundred And Thousand
US Dollars] in the codicil and last testament of the
deceased. The late Walter Trevor until his death was a former Managing Director
and pioneer staff of a big construction company in China and later invested
in poultry farm and grains. He established himself as a wealthy farmer in
Asia where he exported rice and other poultry products. He was a very dedicated
man and a great philanthropist during his lifetime. He involved himself
in helping people by giving invest able loans in agriculture and other ventures.
Late Walter Trevor died on 9th December 2004 at the age of 78. He has since
been buried on the 23rd of December 2004. He was an American lived in Asia
all through his active years but later move down to London due to long term
illness where he died in a specialist hospital last month.
He was married but without a child and lost his wife in 1986 due to breast
cancer. He said in his words as stated in his last testament that "it is
my desired wish to see that the poor and less privileged are given assistance
by any means and limit this token could go, especially Asia,
Africa and South America having seen it all myself. He therefore advised
that this amount be invested and the part of the proceeds be used in the
work of humanity".
I hereby request that you forward your current telephone for further discussion
and your forwarding address to enable us file necessary documents of claims
at probate registry for the release of this funds to you.
Please note that this is for real, as no expenses will be demanded from
you but from the amount set aside as the probate expenses. But your obligation
is to ensure that you dedicate the funds to be in line with the vision of
Mr. Tevor in helping the poor and needy in the society.
Please inform me if you did receive this notification this time with this
email:
Yours faithfully,
Dr Mark Brown
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