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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: "collins mark" <collinsmk17@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:34:45 +0800
Subject: I seek your permission
I am Barrister Collins Mark, an Attorney at Law, personal attorney to a
National of your country, who worked with Mobil Oil Plc. in Nigeria,
hereinafter shall be referred to as my client.
On September 9, 2001, my client and his wife made a business trip to New
York and never returned up till now. I, to the best of my knowledge believe
that my client and the wife must be among the thousands of victims of the
September 11 attack since he has business schedule to the world trade centre
that very day of the attack, no doubt about it. Since then, I have made
several inquiries to your Embassy here in Lagos to locate any of my client’s
extended relatives but this proved unsuccessful. After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the internet to
see if any member of his family could be located or traced hence I contacted
you for bearing exactly same family name with him.
I am contacting you to assist me in repatriating the funds and property left
behind by my client before they got confiscated or declared unserviceable by
the bank where he has big deposits. Particularly, the bank where the
deceased had an account valued at about (US$10.5m) Ten million and Five
hundred thousand United States Dollars, has issued me a notice to provide
the "Next of Kin" or have the account confiscated within the next 48 working
days. Since I have been unsuccessful locating the relatives for over four
years now, I seek your consent to present you as the “Next of Kin” to the
deceased so that the funds will be paid into your bank account, then we can
share it on 50% each side for onward investment in your country.
All necessary legal documents that can be used to back-up the claims will be
provided. What I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this
transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate
arrangements that will protect you and me from any breach of the law.
Please do get back to me as soon as possible through my address, email or
fax while my phone number will be furnished to you in my next mail if you
will be interested so that I will let you know the steps to be taken to
actualise the repatriation/payment of the fund.
Best Regards,
Barr. Collins Mark.
Principal Attorney,
Group Attorneys.
Legal Building,
1-5 Presidential Road,
Lagos, Nigeria.
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