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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: martins john <matins_2007@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 21:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Urgent Response
Trowers & Hamlins
Sceptre Court 40 Tower Hill
London. EC3N 4DXE
This email may be a surprise to you because you did not give me the
permission to do so and neither do you know me but before I tell you
about
myself I want you to please forgive me for sending the mail without
your permission.
I am Barrister JOHN MARTINS, a solicitor at law. I am the personal
attorney to late Mr. Henry Patrick, who died on the 8th day of
February
2005 after a brief illness at the age of 85. Until his death he was a
consultant to several oil and gas industries. He had sojourn to so
many
countries before he came to Cairn Energy PLC oil and gas exploration
and
Production Company based in the London, United Kingdom.
He was a knight in the Church and belonged to several non-governmental
and scientific organizations. He was also great philanthropist and a
Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary ClubInternational. I know it will
interest you to know that my late client Mr. Henry Patrick came to
this
country as an orphan, at a tender age and he has no wife or children.
And since his death at the age of 85 years, I have made several
inquiries to his embassy to locate any of my clients extended
relatives, but
this has proved unsuccessful. But before he died, he had £2.7 million
in
bearer bonds in a bank. After these several unsuccessful attempts to
locate any member of his family to put claims on this money as his
next
of kin was not successful.
I decided to contact you to present you as his next of kin to the bank
so that you can put claims on the Inheritance without suspicion. As
you
know, since I am his personal lawyer, it will not be acceptable by the
paying bank for me to put claims on the Inheritance. Hence I contacted
you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my
client in the bank where this money is lodged by acting as his next of
kin so that the money will be paid into your account.
However, I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of the law
both
international and local. All I require from you is your honest
co-operation to enable us conclude this deal on a clean slate without
any hitch.
Please get in touch with me, with your personal telephone number or
fax
number to enable us discuss further. For the urgency this requires,
please get to me via my private email
Look forward to your urgent response.
Best regards,
Bar.JOHN MARTINS
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