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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: "James Douglas" <jamesdouglas100@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:12:36 +0000
Subject: Front as next of Kin
Douglas & Douglas Solicitors
Barr. James Douglas(SAN)
LEGAL PRACTITIONER, SOLICITOR
&ADVOCATE LAGOS, NIGERIA.
TEL:234 80 330 64170
Hello and good day,
I am Barr. James Douglas (SAN), personal attorney to Engineer Robert
Nelson, a national of your country, who used to work with Osusu Construction
Company Nig. ltd. here in Nigeria herein after, shall be
referred to as my client. My client with his entire family (The wife and Two
Children) were involved in the bomb explosion in Lagos, Nigeria, on January
27th, 2002 which, claim many lives and property. Unfortunately, my client
and the family lost their lives in that disaster that needed not to have
happened. Since then I have made several enquiries to your
embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts,No success, i
decide contacting you, to assist in repatriating the fund (Estate) left
behind by my client prior to his death before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the company where this huge deposit were lodged
in, where the deceased had an account valued at about US$10.4 million. The
company had issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the
account
confiscated within the next 14 official working days. Since I have been
unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over one year, now I seek your
consent as the next of kin of the deceased since i have every documents to
back up your claim. so that the transfer of this account valued at US$10.4
million can be paid to you. I will provide all the necessary official and
legal documents that can be used to back up your claim.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable me as the legal attorney
to the deceased in seeing that you receive your inheritance fund. I
guarantee that this will be executed legitimately to protect you from any
breach of the law. You can find
informations about the January 27th, 2002 Bomb Explosion on the website
below.
http://wwwdisasterrelief.org/Disasters/020130Lagos3/ Please get back to me
through my email address( j_ddd_100@yahoo.com ) for further discussion.
Best regards,
Barr.James Douglas (SAN)
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