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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: "Chris Taylor" <tchris300@rediffmail.com>
Date: 21 Mar 2007 09:01:41 -0000
Subject: 100% assurance.
Barrister Chris Taylor $ AssociatesPlot 56, Okota-Isoloway,Lagos - NigeriaEmail: tchris300@yahoo.fr
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Barrister Chris Taylor, a Solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to Mr. Douglas Blackwell, nationality of your country .He was a specialist Seasoned Contractor with Shell Petroleum Company in Lagos - Nigeria, who unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africans Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonuo, Benin Republic on the December 26,2003. You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this: website:www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3348109.stmBefore his death on the 26th December 2003. He has a fixed Deposit account with one of the biggest commercial bank here in Nigeria formerly known as STANDARD TRUST BANK Nigeria his account informations are: ACCOUNT NUMBER: 00582635794768 ROUTING NUMBER CODE: 492657765 BENEFICIARY\'S NAME Mr Douglas Blackwell and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me that his supposed next of ki
n died along with him in the crash. Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my clients Extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these Several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family but to no avail. Hence I contacted you despite the facts that I know, you don’t know him nor share the same last with him, but with your co-operation we can workout this project successfully without any hitch. As a matter of urgency, is important that we can get this money as soon as possible before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank thereby revert such fund to Government of Nigeria as prescribed by law of legacy payments acts 1999 Constitution of Republic of Nigeria.Consequently, Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3 years now. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$10.560million can be pa
id to you and then you and me can share the money. I will obtain all the necessary legal documents on your behalf as the next of kin to the late deceased that can be used to back up any Claim we may make. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the Law and am assuring you that it is 100% risk free transaction.If this proposal is acceptable by you, do contact me immediately on my confidential email address as follows: tchris300@yahoo.fr
Best Regards,
Barr. Chris Taylor(esq)
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