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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" <mscott047@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: michaelscott58@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:49:40 -0700
Subject: Mutual Business Relationship
88,Woolworth Rd
SE1 7AA,
London England
michaelscott58@gmail.com
+447011153020
17/07/2008
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 a 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: michaelscott58@gmail.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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