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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: Edward Eugene <edward.eugenec@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: edward.eugened@yahoo.ca
Date: 12 Jun 2007 20:11:46 -0000
Subject: Please consider as very urgent.
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Dear Sir,
Compliments of the season.
I am Barrister Eugene Edward, an Attorney at Law, personal attorney to a National of your country, who worked with Mobil Oil Plc in Nigeria, hereinafter shall be referred to as my client.
On September 9, 2001, my client and his wife made a business trip to New York and never returned up till now. I, to the best of my knowledge believed that my client and the wife must be among the thousands of victims of the Setember 11 attack since he has business schedule to the world trade centre that very day of the attack, no doubt about it.
Since then, which is 6 years plus, I have made several inquiries to your Embassy here in Lagos to locate any of my client’s extended relatives but this proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the internet to see if any member of his family could be located or traced hence I contacted you for bearing exactly same family name with him.
I am contacting you to assist me in reparating the funds and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where he has big deposits. Particularly, the bank where the deceased had an account valued at about (US$1m) one million United States Dollars, has issued me a notice to provide the "Next of Kin" or have the account confiscated within the next 48 working days. Since I have been unsuccessfully locating the relatives for over three years now, I seek your consent to present you as the “Next of Kin” to the deceased so that the funds will be paid into your bank account, then we can share it on 50% each side for onward investment in your country.
All necessary legal documents that can be used to backup the claim will be provided. What I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please do get back to me as soon as possible if you are my late client's relation, if you are not, still reach me since it is same family name so that we can use the name to process the inheritance with the bank because I am tired for the internet search to locate them.
Thanks and my best regards.
Barr. Edward.
Principal Attorney,
Group Attorneys.
Legal Building,
1-5 Presidential Road,
Lagos Nigeria.
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