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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: Jonathan West <jonathanwest@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: sirjonathanwest@netscape.net
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:18:33 +0000
Subject: URGENT PROPOSAL [TAKE TIME TO VIEW]
Sir/Madam
I am a staff of Natwest Bank London. 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 £23.9 million British Pounds Sterling (Twenty-three 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 his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. You can read more about the crash on visiting this site.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since we got 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 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 I and two other officials in this department now decided to make business with you and release the money to you 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 five years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 35% of this money would be for you as foreign partner,
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 trust is our watchword in this transaction.
You are also at liberty to accept or reject my humble proposal.If you are in acceptance,Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as your 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 telephone number for easy communication between us. Do Reply to sirjonathanwest@netscape.net
Regards
Jonathan West [Sir]
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