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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: st lucas <stlucas2005@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:23:31 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Reply me Urgently
From: Steve Lucas
Email: stlucas2005@yahoo.co.in
Attn: Director/Ceo
Dear Sir,
I have the pleasure in writing this letter to you in strict Confidence and I know that my letter will come to you as a great Surprise, since we have never met before. I was the Financial Adviser to late Mr. Alex J Carlos here in South Africa, Until his untimely death in the year 2002, in a ghastly motor Accident, which claimed his life along with that of his wife and only Son, who were his co-occupants in the ill fate automobile, with which he was traveling on that fateful day. I was his financial adviser and I reside and work here in the Republic of South Africa, [RSA].
For the past three years, I have done everything humanly possible to locate anybody of Alex's descent that could still be alive to date, for the purpose of turning over to such person the wealth that Alex left behind, but it has been abortive and without success. The magnitude of efforts that I have made in the above direction without success has now left me in doubt that Alex's family tree must have permanently gone extinct unfortunately.
In the light of the foregoing, I am now faced with a new challenge and moral question of whether to allow the Bank where Alex had his money to misappropriate it to themselves, because Alex has no survivor, or next of kin, who can demand for and collect the money from this bank.
I am convinced that in the absence of any next of kin/survivor, I his Financial Adviser is the closest person to Alex alive, haven worked with him in all his business projects in my professional capacity.
Haven thus made up my mind; I am contacting you to solicit your cooperation in that regard, because you are a foreigner like Alex. A combination of the facts that I was his Financial Adviser and the fact that you are a foreigner like him will make my using you as his next of kin/beneficiary, to recover all the wealth he left behind very simply .My primary interest now is the sum of Twenty Six-Million US Dollars [US$26,000,000.00], with interests accruing, which he left in a Bank in Johannesburg, South Africa, My idea here is that the two of us will share this US$26.m, in an agreed ratio, when it is paid to you, because we need each other to make this happen.
I make sure that I get all the necessary legal documents that will be used to back up any claim we choose to make to the money and no questions, or suspicions will be raised anywhere, since I was his real Financial Adviser until his death, I have earlier put the Bank where this money is, [which is located and situated in Johannesburg South Africa], on notice that soon I will be assisting my client's next on kin in claiming and withdrawing the money. In respond the Bank agreed, but ask me to do so very quickly, or have the account frozen and the fund forfeited.
Therefore, I earnestly solicit your honest/very sincere cooperation, in this matter. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will not involve any breach of the law. To that extent also guarantee that you will not be at any danger/risk of any breach of international/local law and will therefore not have any problem now, or ever, as a result of this transaction.
I look forward to receiving your urgent reply to this offer, by above e-mail address soonest.
Best regards,
Steve Lucas
Email: stlucas2005@yahoo.co.in
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