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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: "Christopher Adams" <barrca55@msn.com>
Reply-To: barristerchristopher@terramail.com.sv
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:00:29 +0000
Subject: Attention Pronk
Dear Pronk,
My name is Barrister Christopher Adams personal attorney to Mr. Martins G.
Pronk a national of your country, who works with Oshogbo Steel Rolling
Company here in Nigeria before his sudden death.
My client was involved in the Bellview Flight 210 crash of October 22, 2005
that claimed 117 lives. Unfortunately, my client lost his live in that air
disaster. Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate
any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the
Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.
My purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriating the Estate left
behind by my client prior to his death before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the company where the deceased had an account
valued at about US$5.8 million. The company had issued me a notice to
provide the next of kin immediately or have the account confiscated. Since I
have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for a long time, now I seek
your consent as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last
name, so that you will receive the proceeds of this account valued at US$5.8
million.
I will provide all the necessary official and legal documents that can be
used to back up your claim. All I require is your honest co-operation to
enable me as the legal attorney to the deceased in seeing that you receive
your inheritance fund. I guarantee that this will be executed legitimately
to protect you from any breach of the law.
You can find information about the Bellview Flight 210 crash of October 22,
2005 that claimed 117 lives on the websites below.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/24/wcrash24.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/10/24/ixportal.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/03BECDD3-CE4F-48A0-AD96-01325AF1FA28.htm
Kindly get back to me through my email address for further discussion.
Yours truly,
Barrister Christopher Adam
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