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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: "Harris Harris" <hrrs.harris2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:28:50 +0200
Subject: GBP 6 MILLION BUSINESS PROPOSAL TO YOU AND YOUR URGENT REPLY NEEDED NOW
Dominion Associates
Chambers Barristers & Solicitors
Public Notary
800 Lea Bridge Road,
London
E39 6AJ
EMAIL CONTACT ME VIA: (ivoryassociates1@excite.com)
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:
This e-mail message from the law firm of Ivory Associates & Chambers
Barristers& Solicitors is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may
contain confidential and privileged information. Any review, use,
distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not
the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please
contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message
GBP 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 Harris Harris, an attorney from Europe and a personal attorney
to late Mr. John Cuthbertson, (hereinafter referred to as my client 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 client used to be a close friend of my late father who also died four
years ago. Shortly, before my client death, he had instructed me to prepare
his WILL 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 client's
relatives to facilitate repatriation of his estate from London. My efforts
up till date proved unsuccessful.
The reason for contacting you is to assist me urgently in repatriating the
sum of Six million Great British Pounds Sterlings (GBP 6,000,000) left
behind by my client before his death. This amount of money is kept in safe
custody with a Bank here in London. The Bank has issued me a notice to
provide the next-of- kin of my client 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 Attorney to the deceased and the Bank
is aware of this situation.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of his relatives for seven
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 client 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 Bank here in London. 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
equally 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 corrupt government in UK.
If you are capable of handling this transaction, please reply via my
email address:(ivoryassociates1@excite.com)
with your full names and telephone number to enable us discuss and proceed
accordingly.
Yours faithfully,
Barr. Harris Harris
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