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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: "David Brimley" <dave_brim005@surfy.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: dave_brim005@excite.com
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:27:15 +0000
Subject: Compliments from David Brimley
Barr.David Brimley.
Laurence Pountney Hill
London EC4R 0HH
UK.
20th January 2006
ATTENTION: Very Urgent
Hello Dear ,
I am Barrister David Brimley, I have an urgent and
very profitable business
proposition for you that should be handled with
extreme confidentiality.
On January 12,1997 a Consultant and contractor with
the British Water
Corporation Mr. Chang Elaine by name made a
numbered time Fixed Deposit
for twelve calendar months valued at US$20.9M
(Twenty Million,Nine Hundred
thousand United States Dollars Only) in a Financial
and Security Company.
Upon maturity they sent a routine notification in
accordance with the
Company policy to his forwarding address but got no
reply. After a month
they sent a reminder and finally we discovered from
his contract employers
British Water Corporation that Mr. Chang Elaine
died in the Korean Air
Flight {801}, which crashed in Guam, on August
6,1997.
www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list.
On further investigation, I found out that he died
without making a Will and
all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless.
I therefore made
further investigations and discovered that Chang
Elaine did not declare
any next of kin or relations in all his official
documents including his
Bank Deposit paperwork in the Financial and Security
Company.
This sum of US$20.9M i understand was kept in the
Financial and Security
Company for safekeeping to enable him have direct
and immediate access to
the funds for a contract that he intend to execute.
No one will ever come forward to claim it and
according to the Law of my
country, at the expiration of 7 years the money will
revert to the ownership
of the British Government, if nobody applies to
claim the fund. I decided to
contact you to assist me receive his money for safe
keeping and investments
on his behalf as everything will be taken over by
the British Government as
provided in section 129 sub 63(N), British Banking
Edit of 1961.
This prompted me to contact you.I want to front you
as the next of kin and
beneficiary to the late client thereby making you
the legal beneficiary of
the sum of $20.9 million U.S Dollars that is
presently in the Financial and
Security Company.
I contacted you because you have a similar name with
the decease. and it
will be very easy for the Financial and Security
Company to believe since
they know me as his Lawyer and moreover i am working
with a key member of
the Financial and Security Company.
The transaction is 100% legal and totally free of
risks as all modalities
has been perfected to ensure the hitch free success
of the transaction. I
have also decided that you will generously be
entitled to 30% of the total
amount. Upon my receipt of your reply confirming
your willingness to assist
me of this transaction, I will immediately arrange
and transfer all the
rights of ownership of this fund to your name to
facilitate your easy
clearance and transfer of the complete funds to your
country.
You have nothing to worry about, as I will be there
to assist you in anyway
necessary with all proper documentation.
I await your response urgently.
Regards,
Barr.David Brimley.
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