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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: Freddy Jones. <freddyjonesj@netscape.net>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 19:53:23 +0200
Subject: Freddy Jones.
Dear lessig,
I hope this letter finds you well.While this email will definitely be coming to you as a surprise, please take
a moment of your time to read this letter bcause of It is very importance and urgency.
I am Mr. Freddy Jones, treasury officer at a Bank in South Africa. I have urgent and very confidential
business proposition for you.
On June 6, 2002, Mr. Jerry Williams made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for forty-eight months, (being
four years) valued at US$8,500,000.00, (Eight Million,Five hundred thousand US Dollars) in my branch.
Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we
sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his employers, that Mr. Jerry Williams died from tsunami
on his holidays in Thailand 26 December 2004.
On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next
of kin were fruitless.I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Jerry Williams did not
declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my
Bank.
This sum of US$8,500,000.00 is waiting to be paid out to anyone who presents himself/herself as next of
kin to late Mr Jerry Williams.No relation of Mr Jerry Williams will ever come forward to claim the money
that is why myself and another colleague in our office decided to nominate you as the next of kin for
claims of the money.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you to stand in as the next of kin to Mr Jerry Williams and
claim the money from our company with the help of an attorney.
This Attorney will prepare the necessary documents which will put you in place as the as the next of kin
qualifying you to receive the money.
There is no risk at all because the paper work for this inheritance transaction will be done by the
Attorney.By using the services of an Attorney guarantee successful execution of the transaction.
UPon conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of the total fund, while 5% will be set
aside to take care of expenses on both sides that may arise during the time of transfer and also for
telephone bills, and the remaining 65% will be for me and my colleague.
If you are interested reply with full details of the name and address including telephone/fax numbers
which the Attorney will need to prepare the necessary documents required for this inheritance
transaction.
Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for
all of us.However detailed information about proceedure of the transaction would be conveyed to you in
the next letter.
Awaiting your urgent reply via this email ( fredjones@fsmail.net )
Thanks and regards.
Mr Freddy Jones
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