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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: "mark ego" <markego27@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 02:26:43 +0100
Subject: GOOD DAY SIR\MADAM
TRIUMPH CHAMBERS,
Solicitors & Advocates, Notary Public
# 202 Omega Plaza , Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria.
GOOD DAY SIR\MADAM ,
I crave your indulgence to kindly attend to this mail in good faith. I do
not mean any disrespect by approaching you through this medium, It is due to
the urgency of the matter. My name is Barrister MARK EGO , a legal
practitioner and the personal attorney to one Steve Moore , (now deceased),
a national of your country herein-after refered to as my client. My client
late.Steve Moore and his family were involved in a fatal auto crash along
Ibadan/Ife expressway on 5th of November 2000. Unfortunately my client and
his family died in the fatal accident. In fact many of the accident victims
were burnt to death. More reports on this issue can be found in:
archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/11/06/crash.nigeria.death.reut/
My client an oil magnet working with Chevron Oil / Texaco Nigeria plc had
left behind a fixed deposit of Twenty -Seven Million United States Dollars
(USD27M) only with a Financial Institution. Just after the death of my
client, the finance company contacted me as his attorney to provide his next
of kin who should inhert this fortune. This according to them was in
accordance with the Financial Institution's policy in such circumstances.
Well since the death of my client and his entire family, I have made several
enquiries through his embassy to locate any of my client's close or extended
relatives but this exercise had all the years been unsuccessful. I had to
inform the finance company about my fruitless effort in locating any of my
client's close relatives. The Board of Directors of the company has just
adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide the next of kin for the
payment of this money within the next fifteen (15) working days or forfeit
the money as an unclaimed funds. The company had planned to invoke the
abandoned property decree of 1994 to confiscate the funds after the
expiration of the period of grace given to me.
After an investigation in the finance company, I found out that some of the
Directors are planning to divert this funds into thier private accounts for
their personal use and only want to use the beneficiary or next-of-kin
excuse to achieve their nefarious objective. Well I have considered the
options open to us very carefully and professionally too and I have decided
to use a legal means to present you as the next of kin of my deceased
client. This is legally possible and would be done in accordance with the
laws of the federation. Consequently I seek your consent to be presented as
the next of kin to the deceased since you are a foreigner. I have all vitial
documents that would confer you the legal rights to make this claim and I
will make them available to you so that the proceeds of this bank account
valued at USD27 Million can be paid to you before it gets confiscated or
declared unclaimable. Note that this transaction is 100% safe and risk -
free.
I do sincerely sympathtize the death of my client but I think it is
unreasonable for his funds to be abandoned to the Federal Goverment of this
country or some finance company directors. My aim is to retrieve this funds
and for this singular reason I seek your assistance. Since I have not been
able to locate the relatives of my deceased client for over four (4) years
now and since no one has come for the claim I seek your consent once again
to present you as the next of kin of the deceased. When we receive this
money, it shall be shared between you and I in the ratio of 30:70. Whcih
means you shall have 30% of the money while the remaining 70% shall be mine.
I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in
touch with me immediately so that we can commence with the processing of the
claim at once. For a smooth and unhindered processing of the claim please
send the following information to me:
Your Full Name(s); Address; Telephone and Fax Numbers (if any). You can also
send your complete banking information for the payment of the money. However
this is optional as it is not required at this stage. Please direct all
further communications to me via this email address for confidential
reasons: markego2007@ubbi.com
to commence the transfere of this fund you are requsested to come up with
the following ;
1 ) your full name ( 2 )phone number (3) the bank account were you want the
fund to be
transfered to.with this the fund will get to your account within 7 bank
working days
Best Regards.
MARK EGO Esq.
Principal Partner.
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