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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: "andrew watson" <andrewwatson_10@msn.com>
Reply-To: andewatson_10@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:41:53 +0000
Subject: Redeemable Bond.
Dear Friend,
I am Mr. Andrew Watson, an official of a financial institution in London UK.
I am writing 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
money deposited in bond, which l will disclose to you upon showing your
interest in assisting us, this fund 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. You shall read more about the crash on visiting
this site.http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin or relatives to come over and lay claims to 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 a colleagues
officials in this department now decided to make business with you and
release the money to your possession as the next of kin or beneficiary of
the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement, since nobody is
laying claims to 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 six (6) years will be transferred into British treasury as unclaimed
funds and this will effected by the end of this year Upon show your interest
the sharing ratio shall be spell out, Our assurance is that your role is
risk free to accord this transaction the legality it deserves as with all
modalities put in place we are certain in actualizing a hitch free transfer
of the funds without any complications. Kindly signify your intention to
assist by sending me an email for further procedures relating to this
transaction.
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. If you are interested in this project contact me as a
matter of urgency for further directives.
Best Regards,
Mr. Andrew Watson.
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