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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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Fraud email example:
From: Barrister Stephen Lloyd <woodstock19782001@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: stephen_lloyd912@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:15:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Hello Ben Page
13 Old Square
Lincoln¢s Inn
London
WC2A 3UA
(Reply To stephen_lloyd912@hotmail.com)
Greetings,
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 barrister Stephen Lloyd,a solicitor at law. I am the
personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr. Robert Page,
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 2001.
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
only(9.8million)with a finance company.The finance company contacted
me, as his attorney to provide his next of kin who should inherit his
fortune.
I have written several letters to the embassy with an
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. 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. Also I have received
official letters in the last two days suggesting a likely proceeding
for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing
laws of the institution.
Well 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 finding that you bear a similar last name, 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 bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client.
I find this possible for the fuller reasons that you are of the same
nationality and you bear a similar last name with my late client making
it a lot easier for you to put up a claim in that capacity.
I
have all vital documents that would confer you the legal right to make
this claim and would make them available to you so that the proceeds of
this bank account valued at £9.8million can be paid to you before it
gets confiscated or declared un serviceable to the bank where this huge
amount is lodged.
I do 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 funds and let it be claimed by the deceased family
name,etc. for this I seek your assistance since I have been unable to
locate the relatives for the past 8years now.
I seek your
consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you
have the same last name giving you the advantage so that the proceeds
of this account can be paid to you and then both of us can share the
money,60% to me and 40% to you. I know there might be other persons out
there with the same surname as my last client, but after a little check
my instinct tells me to contact you. Can I trust you on this?I shall
assemble all the necessary documents that will be used to back up your
claim.
Please get in touch with me by calling my numbers below
or by my alternative email:stephen_lloyd912@hotmail.com and send to me
your :Full Names,telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss further
on this transaction.
Kind Regards.
Stephen Lloyd(Esq)
Phone:+447624155288
The
Information in this email is confidential. It is intended solely for
the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized.If
you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure,
copying,distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in
reliance to it,is prohibited and may be unlawful.
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