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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: Martin Billings <martin_esq07@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:00:53 +0000
Subject: Estate of Chris hall
Martin Billings & Associates,
Solicitors & Advocates,
13-01-2008
Reply to :martinbillings@yahoo.co.uk
Dear Friend,
I know this mail will surely come to you as a
surprise, considering the fact that we don't know
each other and I must apologize for any embarrassment
this may have caused you.
Although you are not the only person
whose name and email address is listed on the internet
from where I got your contact, but I took some factors
into consideration before arriving at the decision to
contact you which you will find out as you read on.
Let me start by formally introducing My self to you, I
am Barrister Martin Billings, a Legal Practitioner and
Head of Chambers of an International accredited Law
Firm Based in UK. I am also Attorney to Late Mr.
Chris J. Hall an expatriate who was resident in
UK before his demise early in 2005 from CARDIAC
ARREST.
He had a heart attack following the sad news of the
death of his beloved wife Carol Hall and children during the
2004 Tsunami disaster while on vacation in Thailand.
My said client was a consultant to Oil Prospecting
Companies in UK and a very wealthy man. I was
his personal Attorney for a period of three years.
Though an immigrant, he lived most of
his lifetime in UK and took here as a home, since
according to him he was raised up in an orphanage,
having been abandoned by his mother at birth.
Now to the brass tack, the deceased took a life
Insurance Policy that entitles any Surviving member of
his family to a whooping sum of GBP 5,000,000.00 in
the event of his death. Unfortunately his wife and
children who are his next of kin are no more and under
the existing law here the Surviving relatives of the
deceased by extension of family lineage becomes
the benefactor which to the best of my knowledge is
non-existing considering his background. So far my
efforts to recover his financial entitlements yielded
no result as the management of the insurance company
insisted they will only release the fund to the
deceased surviving relative, whereby his wife and
children who statutorily would have inherited the
money are no more.
I am contacting you based on divine guidance as i have been
praying over this matter for months, so that we can work out a
modality to make use of what he left in my care before his sudden
demise though, it does not suggest you are
related. Be that as it may, I wish to solicit for your
co-operation in assisting me recover the fund by
permitting me to present you as a relation to the
deceased. I am very optimistic that it would workout
if you follow my directives, which I will brief you
upon your response.
I am not pursuing this claim for selfish reason, it is
a professional responsibility I owe my late client,
and you will be adequately rewarded for you assistance
in this endeavor. You shall receive 30% of the total
amount involved for your role in this endeavor.
Expecting to hear from you as soon as possible.
Martin Billings Esq.
Principal partner
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