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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: barrmac brown <barrmacbrown4@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: barrmacbrown@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:29:42 -0800 (PST)
Subject: very Important,,,,( From: Barr.Mac Brown South Africa )
From: Barr. Mac Brown
South Africa, TEL;+277 34664257
FAX; 277 867133152
Dear Sir,
I am sorry for the inconvenience this email will give you but will appreciate if you can make out time to go through my message. I am Barrister Mac Brown, a solicitor at law and personal attorney to the late Mr.Patrick ,a national of your country; He was formally a director with South Africa Gold and Steel Corporation Company, a company that deals on Gold in South Africa.
My client, his wife and their one child were involved in a motor accident along Springs express road in Johannesburg South Africa and unfortunately the family died in the accident.Prior to his death, my client deposited $18.5 million (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with a security company. The deposit is in Europe, as my client cannot transfer such huge fund through his personal account. This money was raised through inflated contracts in his company and as such the company is not aware of the deposited fund.
The status now is that my client left no WILL or any information about his next of kin and if I inform the company about the fund, they will definitely want to claim it from the security company. In view of this, I have decided to contact you to assist me in getting this fund from the security company since nobody has the knowledge of the deposited fund.
We can get the fund from this company since you have the same last name with my client. I will use your name to get the probate documents at the federal high court presenting you as the executor of my client's estate since I have his death certificate with me. I believe this is privilege information, which I expect you to keep confidential because of my profession. The business will not take us time since all we need is to get the probate from the court which I will fax to the company to inform them that you are the next of kin to my client and beneficiary of the deposit.
I am ready to give you 50% of the total sum for your co-operation. If you are interested, send me your complete mailing address, to enable me file in for the necessary documentation before the approval of this money in your name. I will also need your direct tel/fax numbers, as I will like a faster communication medium do get to me soonest your response is anticipated.
Thank you for your anticipated co-operation
Barrister. Mac Brown
South Africa,
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