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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: "ray woods" <raywoods1@sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: raywoods@edumail.co.za
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:57:25 +0000
Subject: Please confirm the receipt of my mail
Dear Sir,I hope this meets you in good health. My name is Ray Woods a legal
practitioner and Attorney to late Mr. Igor Shaposhnikov who died in the
plane crash on the 9th of March, 2000.
My late client was an influential wealthy businessman, a Russian
Contractor, a Russian big time Oil dealer and the Principal owner of Oil Alliance
Company and he left behind a deposit of Twelve Million, Two Hundred
Thousand British Pound (£12,200,000.00 PB) as a Fund owned by his foreign
business partner.
Since he is dead and no more and no trace to any of his relatives
living or dead after all the efforts I have made in the past few years, I want
you to stand as my late client's next of kin/beneficiary in London to claim
the cash deposit.I have employed every means possible to locate any of my client's
extended relatives (next of kin) but this exercise has proved unsuccessful after
many years. After the death of my client the manager of the company have
made several contacts to me, as his Attorney to provide his next of kin who
should inherit the deposited fund.The Directors of his (Mr. Igor Shaposhnikov) company adopted a
resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of this
money or forfeit the money to the company. The company had planned to invoke
a clause in the property Act, to confiscate the funds after the
expiration of a period given to me. Despairing and at the point of desperation, I
came across your name and contact, while trying to locate documentation's
regarding possible relatives of my client. Convinced that you may be
able to act in locus for my late client as his next of kin, I therefore,
decided to contact you with these facts before me because of the status quo. By
virtue of my brief and my closeness to the deceased, I am very much aware of
my client's financial standing, which he operated here in London.I have reasoned very professionally and I felt it would be legally
proper to present you as the next of kin of my deceased client and the sole
beneficiary of the cash deposit. The rest is between you and I and with
my guide we can have you claim this cash deposit by standing as the next
of kin to my late client, once this is done we shall both share the funds at
the ratio of 60% to me and 40% to you.I shall assemble all the necessary Legal Documents that will be used to
back up our claim. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see
this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please
get in touch with me and reply this letter as soon as possible.
I will give you more details as soon as I received your urgent reply.
Kindly send your swift reply to my confidential email
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