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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: seanglen44@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:07:09 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dear=20Friend?=
From: BANK OF SCOTLAND,
LONDON BRANCH.
Dear Friend,
Please do not be offended if I have invaded your privacy. I am Mr.Sean Glen,
and I am contacting you on business transfer of a large sum of money from
a deceased account. I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make
anyone apprehensive and worried, but I assuring you that all will be well
at the end of the day. We decided to contact you due to the urgency of this
transaction.We came to know of you via the London. Global. Database.Center
(L.G.D.C.) Hence i am making this contact.
PROPOSITION.
I was the account officer to Mr Salah Adam (deceased) one of our foreign
customers. While he banked with us, we oversaw his accounts and other official
obligations as my office demanded being his accounts officer. Unfortunately,
he died together with his entire family in the plane crash of 31 October,
1999 on board the Egyptian Airline 990 alongside other passengers. . You
can confirm this fact from the website which was aired by the BBC WORLD
NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to
lay claims to this money as the heir. We cannot release the fund from his
account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased
as indicated according to the law of your country.Most likely, if there
are next of kin, they all get an equal share. If there are(mysteriously)
no next of kin (claiming or otherwise), the money goes to the state.
Having made a very franatic and exhaustive search for any family member
that would lay claim to this fund, I decided to take my chance with you.
I now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to the deceased
as I have all documentations including his Testament (Will) & last testament
that will facilitate your stand as next of kin to him as he had a closing
balance of £15,500,000.00 (Fifteen million, five hundred thousand pounds
sterling) here in our bank in London. I also have secured from the probate
an order of mandamus to locate any member of deceased family to become beneficiary
of this fund.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business
endeavour by furnishing me with the following, vial reply to my private
E-mail: seanglen47@yahoo.co.uk
1. Beneficiary name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable me make some internal re-adjustments and
file your name in form A2ag and other vital forms as next of kin which before
now was left blank by the deceased upon opening of the account. Upon your
reply, I will advice the way forward. I must assure you that if you are
serious and follow my lead religiously, then this funds will be released
to you within a seven-working-day period.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the
trust I have bestowed on you, I await your urgent mail.
Please reply to my private e-mail: seanglen47@yahoo.co.uk
Regards,
Mr. Sean Glen
Accounts Management Section.
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland, constituted under an Act
of Parliament dated 1695, Head Office: The Mound, Edinburgh, EH1 1YZ
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