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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: "Christopher Rafter" <christopherrafter01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: c_rafter147@excite.com
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:07:46 +0000
Subject: Attn: Moevanu Buttel.
Christopher Rafter & Co Chambers
Brompton Road,
London SW7 1JA,
United Kingdom.
Dear Moevanu Buttel,
This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it should be
treated as such. I am Christopher Rafter, a solicitor at law.
I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr. Mark Buttel,
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 5th of Nov 2000. Since the death of my client in Nov, 2000, I have
written several letters to the embassy with an 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. More so, 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 £9.8m GBP.
The board of directors of the company now adopted a resolution and I was
mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of this money within the
next 15 official working days or forfeit the money as an abandoned fund. The
company had planned to invoke the abandoned property Decree of 1996 to
confiscate the funds after the expiration of the period given to me but
after an investigation in the finance company, I found out that some members
of the company wants to divert this fund into their private accounts for
their own selfish interest and only want, to use the excuse that since I am
not able to look for some one to make the claim, the money should be made
unserviceable and that means submitting the fund to the federal government
of this country and some to the company management which is not their main
intentions.
By virtue of my closeness to the deceased and his immediate family, I am
very much aware of my client's financial standing. I do sincerely sympathize
the death of my client, but had thought it unprofitable for his funds to be
submitted to the federal government of this country and the finance company
where it is lodged. I have reasoned very professionally and I feel it will
be legally proper to present you as the next of kin of my deceased client
which is legally possible and would be done in accordance with the laws of
the land. On this note I decided to search for a credible person and finding
that you bear a similar last name, 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, so that the proceeds of This
Bank Account valued at Nine Million Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds
Sterling only(£9.8million ) can be paid to you, before they get confiscated
or declared unserviceable to the bank where this huge deposit is lodged.
Note that this is legal,and 100% risk free since I have all vital documents
that would be requested by them and that would confer you the legal right to
make this claim. I find this possible for the main reason that you bear a
similar last name with my client making it a lot easier for you to put up a
claim in that capacity. Therefore, to facilitate the immediate reprofiling
of this fund, you need, first to contact me via my alternative email address
signifying your interest and as soon as I obtain your confidence, I will
immediately intimate you with the complete details as well as fax you the
documents, with which you are to proceed and I shall direct on how to put up
an application to the bank.
HOWEVER, you will have to assent 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 fax or 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. 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 through my alternative email
c_rafter147@excite.com for better confidentiality and send to me your
telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss further about this
transaction.
Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this. Please let
me have your opinion as soon as possible for My contact number is
+447983294422 and If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue
advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent response.
Give me a call at your earliest convenience.
Sincerely,
Christopher Rafter (Esq.).
+447983294422
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