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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: "peter0003 Gazeta.pl" <peter0003@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: petersandrsn38@googlemail.com
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:28:04 +0800
Subject: URGENT REPLY.
FROM THE PERSONAL ASSISTANCE
petersandrsn38@googlemail.com
$25.6 Million
Dear Sir
I know that you may be surprised in receiving this confidential Proposal
from somebody you do not know. but please do not be alarmed It is as a
result of the urgency and nature of the business that made me contact you in
this manner. I am Mr. Peter Anderson, Personal assistance to late Mr. John
Cuthbertson, hereinafter referred to as my boss an expatriate and an
oil/mining contractor who used to work in my country back in London as an
Engineering Consultant with UK Mining Corporation. On the 31st of January
2000, my client died from an air crash aboard Alaska Airline flight 261 that
crashed into the Pacific Ocean on January 31, 2000.(
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/index.html).
My boss used to be a close friend of my late father who also died four years
ago. Shortly, before my boss death, he had instructed me to prepare his WILL
with is attorney but without a named beneficiary yet. He had already signed
the WILL and was contemplating on making his pet dog the beneficiary since
he had no wife nor children before he died from air crash.Since that
unfortunate incident, I have made several enquiries to locate any of my boss
relatives to facilitate repatriation of his estate from Europe. My efforts
up till date proved unsuccessful.
The reason for contacting you is to assist me urgently in repatriating the
sum of Twenty five million six hundred million U.S. Dollars (US$25,600,000)
left behind by my client before his death. This amount of money is kept in
safe custody with a security/finance company operating between Europe. The
security company has issued me a notice to provide the next-of- kin of my
boss or have the money declared unserviceable and returned to the UK
government. I can not claim this money myself because of my position as the
personal assistance to the deceased and the Security Company is aware of
this situation.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of his relatives for eight
years now, I seek your consent for a confidential co-operation with me so
that I can present you as the next-of-kin to my boss Mr. John Cuthbertson
for the money to be paid to you as the beneficiary. Note that this
transaction is simple and risk free because I will provide you with expert
legal services, documentations and transaction codes that will guarantee the
successful execution of this deal with the security/finance company.
All I require is your honesty and serious co-operation to enable us see the
deal through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. I wish to
point out that after the claims, I would want 20% of this money to be shared
among charity organizations, while the remaining 80% is shared 35% and 45%
between us. You will agree with me that it is a better judgment for us to
claim this money and put into profitable/peaceful use than allowing it to be
confiscated and divided amongst the government in UK. If you are capable of
handling this transaction,
please reply via my email address: petersandrsn38@googlemail.com , with your
full names and telephone number to enable us discuss and proceed
accordingly.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Peter Anderson.
EMAIL ADDRESS: petersandrsn38@googlemail.com
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