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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: "MICHAEL SCOTT" <mscott016@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: michaelscott001@sify.com
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:56:59 -0700
Subject: Urgent Business Proposal
88,Woolworth Rd
SE1 7AA,
London England
michaelscott001@sify.com
+447011153020
16/06/2008
Dear Sir/Madam
This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it be treated as
such.I must solicit your
confidentiality and assure you that I am contacting you in good faith and
this proposal will be of mutual
benefit. I am Michael Scott , a solicitor at law. I am the personal
attorney/sole executor to the late Mr. Robert
Woodall, hereinafter referred to as my client¢ who worked as an independent
oil magnate in my country and
who died in a car crash with his immediate family in east London
on the 5th of November 2000.
My late client a former Sub-Comptroller working with Chevron Texaco Oil here
in the United Kingdom and
had left behind a deposit of Nine Million Eight Hundred Thousand British
Pounds Sterling (£9.8million
pounds) with a finance company. After the death of my client, the finance
company contacted me, as his
attorney to provide his next of kin who should inherit his fortune this
according to them is their policy in such
circumstances.
I have written several letters to the embassy with intent to locate any of
his extended relatives whom shall be
claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such
efforts have been to no avail. I had to
inform the finance company about my fruitless effort in locating my late
client close relative or his next of kin.
The board of directors of the company just adopted a resolution and I was
mandated to provide his next of
kin for the payment of this money within the next 15 official working days
or forfeit the money as an
abandoned funds.
The company had planned to invoke the abandoned property decree of the
company to confiscate the funds
after the expiration of the period given me. I have reasoned very
professionally and I can use a legal means to
present a next of kin of my deceased client. This is legally possible and
would be done in accordance with the
laws of the land. On this note I decided to search for a credible person and
after going through your profile on
the internet, I was urged to contact you,
that I may, with your consent, present you to the "trustee" as my late
client's family member so as to enable
you put up a claim to the Finance Company in that capacity as a next of kin
of my client.
My conditions:
1. The sum of 9.8million pounds only will be released to you after the
processing
of all relevant legal documents with your name as the beneficiary.
2. This deal must be kept secret forever, and all correspondence will be
strictly
by email/telephone, for security purposes.
3. There should be no third parties as most problems associated with this
kind
of claims are usually caused by agents or representative.
I sincerely sympathize the death of my client but I think it is unprofitable
for his funds to be submitted to the
government of this country or some financial institution. My aim is to
retrieve this fund and then both of us
can share the money, 50% to me and 50% to you.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach
of law. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is
hitch-free and that you should not entertain
any fears as the required arrangements have been made for the completion of
this transaction.
Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this. Please get in
touch with me by my alternative
email: michaelscott001@sify.com for better confidentiality and send to me
your telephone and fax numbers
to enable us discuss further on this transaction.
My contact numbers are +447011153020
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the
trust I have bestowed in you.
Thanks for your understanding.
Regards.
Michael Scott (Esq.)
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