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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: "igwebuikem igwe" <igwebuikem20@msn.com>
Reply-To: igwebuikem20@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:20:42 +0000
Subject: PLS GO THROUGH THIS.
ADONAI CHAMBERS,
Solicitors & Advocates,
# 23 karimu Street, Lagos, West Africa Nigeria.
Good day sir,
I crave your indulgence to kindly attend to this mail in good faith. I do
not mean any disrespect by approaching you through this medium, It is due to
the urgency of the matter. My name is Barrister Igwe J, Igwebuikem, a legal
practitioner and the personal attorney to one Mark Sparling (now deceased),
a national of your country herein-after refered to as my client. My client
late. Mark Sparling and his family were involved in a fatal auto crash
along
Ibadan/lagos expressway on 5th of November 2000. Unfortunately my client and
his family died in the fatal accident. In fact many of the accident victims
were burnt to death. More reports on this issue can befoundin:
archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/11/06/crash.nigeria.death.reut/
My client an oil magnet working with Chevron Oil /Texaco Nigeria plc. had
left behind a fixed deposit of Eleven Million Six Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars (USD11.6) only with a Financial Institution. Just after the
death of my client, the finance company contacted me as his attorney to
provide his next of kin who should inhert this fortune. This according to
them was in accordance with the Financial Institution's policy in such
circumstances. Well since the death of my client and his entire family, I
have made several enquiries through his embassy to locate any of my client's
close or extended relatives but this exercise had all the years been
unsuccessful. I had to inform the finance company about my fruitless effort
in locating any of my client's close relatives. The Board of Directors of
the company has just adopted a resolution and I wasmandated toprovide the
next of kin for the payment of this money within the next 15-working days or
forfeit the money as anunclaimed funds. The company had planned to invoke
the abandoned property decree of 1994 to confiscate the funds after the
expiration of the period of grace given to me.
After an investigation in the finance company, I found out that some of the
Directors are planning to divert this funds into thier private accounts for
their personal use and only want to use the beneficiary or next-of-kin
excuse to achieve their nefarious onbjective. Well I have considered the
options open to us very carefully and professionally too and I have decided
to use a legal means to present you as the next of kin of my deceased
client. This is legally possible and would be done in accordance with the
laws of the federation. Consequently I seek your consent to be presented as
the next of kin to the deceased since you are aforeigner. I have allvitial
documents that would confer you the legal rights to make this claim and I
will make them available to you so that the proceeds of this bank account
valued at USD11.6 Million can be paid to you before it gets confiscated or
declared claimable. Note that this transaction is 100% risk free.
I do sincerely sympathtize the death of my client but I think it is
unreasonable for his funds to be abandoned to the Federal Goverment of this
country or some finance company directors. My aim is to retrieve this funds
and for this singular reason I seek your assistance. Since I have not been
able to locate the relatives of my deceased client for over four (4) years
now and since no one has come for the claim I seek your consent once again
to present you as the next of kin of the deceased. When we receive this
money, it shall be shared between you and I in the ratio of 30:70. Whcih
means you shall have 30% of themoney while the remaining 70% shallbe mine.
I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in
touch with me immediately so that we can commence with the processing of the
claim at once. For a smooth and unhindered processing of the claim please
send the following information to me:
Your Full Name(s), Address, Telephone and Fax (if any) Numbers. You can also
send your complete banking information for the payment of the money. However
this is optional as it is not required at this stage.
Best Regards.
Barr, Igwebuikem
Partner.
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