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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: MR ANDREW DAVIS <andrewdavis78@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:24:16 -0600
Subject: Ref:PROPOSITION
NAME: MR. ANDREW DAVIS
PRIVATE EMAIL: andrewdavis78@yahoo.com
Ref: PROPOSITION;
I am Mr. Andrew Davis, the Managing Director of a reputable Diplomatic storage safe keeping vault in London during the course of our auditing I discovered an abandoned Trunk Box Consignment worth of
US$10,000,000.00 in our Diplomatic storage safe keeping vault,deposited since 1991 till date, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the consignment belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family as a result of an automobile crash. He
actually deposited it for safe keeping in our storage safe keeping vault.
The funds was actually meant for a project, our late client wanted to start in the near future (A multi million Dollar steel plant in Canada), I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, I sent a reminder and finally we discovered that Mr. Thomas Marchant died from an automobile accident with his entire family in Malaysia.
On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a Will, and all attempts to trace his relation/family members was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Thomas Marchant did not declare any Next of Kin or relations in all his official documents, including his deposit paperwork in our Diplomatic storage safe keeping department.
Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a Next of Kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by me for the consignment to be released in your favour as the beneficiary.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following informations;
1. FULL MAMES AND ADDRESS:
2. DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER AND FAX NUMBERS:
3. OCCUPATION AND POSITION:
4. NATIONALITY
5. MARITAL STATUS:
6. AGE /SEX:
These requirements will enable me file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour before I could proceed on the shipment of the consignment to the designated address of your choice. I shall be compensating you with 40% of the total funds while 60% will be mine on final conclusion of this project. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you,
I await your urgent reply.
Please reply to my private and confidential
email:andrewdavis78@yahoo.com
Best Regards
Mr. Andrew Davis
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