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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: "Morris Benson" <billmail@purcell.biz>
Reply-To: morrisbenson4@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:43:12 -0800
Subject: Confirm ASAP
FROM: Barrister Morris Benson
Tower 42, Level 21,
67 Old Broad Street
London EC4N 2HQ United Kingdom
DX: 117 London/City
Phone: 44-762-417-2282
REPLY TO: morrisbenson4@gmail.com
ATTN: S/M
I have the pleasure in writing this letter to you in strict Confidence and
I know that my letter will come to you as a great Surprise, since we have
never met before.
My name is Morris Benson, a Lawyer and I reside and practice in the United
Kingdom UK.
I am writing in post-consent of late Mr. Alexande Walter, who was my client
here in London, Until his untimely death in the year 2004, in a ghastly
motor Accident, which claimed his life along with that of his wife and only
Son, who were his co-occupants in the ill-fated automobile, with which he
was traveling on that fateful day.
For the past two years, I have done everything humanly possible to locate
anybody of Alex's descent, that could still be alive to date, for the purpose
of turning over to such person the wealth that Alex left behind, but it
has been abortive.
The magnetite of efforts that I have made in the above subject matter without
success has now left me in doubt that Alex's family tree must have permanently
gone extinct unfortunately.
In the light of the foregoing, I am now faced with a new challenge and moral
question of whether to allow the financial institutions where Alex had his
monies to appropriate it to themselves, because Alex seems to have had no
survivor, next of kin, or who to demand for and collect these monies from
the financial institution.
In my capacity as Alex's attorney, a fact that is well known to the financial
institution in question, I have been the closest person to Alex while he
was alive haven worked with him in all his business projects in my professional
capacity.
I am therefore contacting you to solicit for your co-operation and assistance
in pulling out of this fund from the financial institution, for our mutual
benefit hence, I have contacted you through the Internet.
The combination of the above facts will indeed enable us collect this Twenty
One Million US Dollars (US$21,000,000) he kept in a financial institution
here in London, the deposit certificate of which I have in my possession.
My idea here is that the two of us will share this amount with the accrued
interest, in an agreed ratio, when it is paid to you as the next-of-kin,because
we need each other to make this happen.
I have all the necessary legal documents that will be used to back up any
claim we choose to make to his money and no questions, or suspicions will
be raised anywhere, since I was his real Attorney, until his death.
I have earlier put this financial institution where this money is,[which
is located and situated here in London, on notice, that soon I will be assisting
my client's next-of-kin in claiming and withdrawing the money.
In response, the financial institution agreed, but asked me to do so very
quickly, or have the account frozen and the fund forfeited.
Therefore, I earnestly solicit your honest/very sincere co-operation,in
this matter. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will not involve any breach of the law.
In view of this, I guarantee that you will not be at any danger/risk of
any breach of international/local law and will therefore not have any problem
now, or in the future as a result of this transaction.
I look forward to receiving your urgent reply to this offer, via the above
contacts email address first before we proceed further.
Best regards,
Morris Benson Esq.
Reply to: morrisbenson4@gmail.com
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