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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: Steven Paull <stevvpaull@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: stevenspaull@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:07:58 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Compliment of the day. Please read
Steven Paull
Holman Fenwick & Willan
Marlow House Lloyds Avenue
London EC3N 3AL
United Kingdom.
Dear Tineke Van Blijswijk
This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it be treated as such. I am Barrister Steven David, a solicitor at law.
I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr Randolf Blijswijk, hereinafter referred to as 'my client' who worked as an independent oil magnate in my country and who died in a car crash with his immediate family on the 4th of oct,1998.
Since the death of my client in 1998, I have written several letters to the embassy with intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail.
I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing laws by the bank in which my client deposited the sum of $4.8 million U.S.D.
On this note I decided to search for a credible person and finding your email on the internet, I was urged to contact you, that I may, with your consent, present you to the "trustee" bank as my late client's surviving family member so as to enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client and also for the fact that you bear a similar surname with my late client.I propose that 35% of the net sum will accrue to you at the conclusion of this deal in so far as I do not incur further expenses.
Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, you need, first to contact me via email signifying your interest and as soon as I obtain your confidence, I will immediately appraise you with the complete details as well as fax you the documents, with which you are to proceed and I shall direct you on how to put up an application to the bank.
HOWEVER, you will have to accent to an express agreement which I will forward to you in order to bind us in this transaction. Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you by E-mail the next step to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made for the completion of this transfer. Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this.
Best regards,
Steven.
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