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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: "BARCLAYSBANK LONDON" <barclaysbklondon@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:31:02 +0000
Subject: AN INHERITED PAYMENT APPROVED FUND
BARCLAYS BANK LONDON, ENGLAND
1 Churchill Place London E14 5HP England.
Bank website: www.barclays.co.uk
Email: mark-merson@racemail.com
Personal: mark_merson_barclaysbk2005@yahoo.co.uk
Direct telephone: (+44) (0) 20 8 750 9150
Bank Registered No: 1026167
>From the Desk of Mark Merson, Investor Relations Department Officer
TOP OF THE DAY:
Good day My dear,
I deem it necessary to contact you through your contact email address
we got
from the US Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in respect of an overdue
outstanding payment, which has been lying wasted at the Debt
Reconciliation
Centre (D.R.C) before it was deposited in our Bank yesterday.
However, it is my position to inform you that our Bank have been
assigned by
the Debt Reconciliation Centre (D.R.C) to approve payment to whom their
irregularities has been waved and the payment has been overdue which
you
happens to fall in the short list as the bonifide next of kin.
As it may interest you to know, During my investigation and auditing in this
bank, I came across a very
huge sum of 10 Million USD belonging to a deceased person Engineer Christian
Eric who died on July 2000 in a plane crash along with his family
you can read more on this website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
And you happens to fall in the list as the Next of Kin to the deceased
person who had died. Contract Payment Approved Fund (C.P. A.F) by the
British Government.
Meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the
bonafide next of kin to the deceased has been conducted, and we will
enclose
the certified copies of the documents that legalize this transaction,
both
the name of the deceased and the Court approval, as soon as you
indicate
your interest upon this notification.
Finally, as you can see we're in position to help you put claim over
this
fund as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, we kindly advice you
to
keep it CONFIDENTIAL, while we do everything in our power to help you
receive the said amount into bank account in Dollars, Euros or Pound
Sterlings through Wire Transfer (W.T), Telegraphic Transfer (T.T) or
Diplomatic immunity, by which your total fund will be packaged in a
Diplomatic box and shall be delivered to you at your doorstep.
Well, as it may interest you to know once again, we've conducted such
similar transaction before,and i will not fail to inform you that this
transaction is 100% risk free. and we can assist you if you want, and
you
will be entitled to 65% of the total sum as gratification while 35%
will be
for me and my partners for helping you.
In view of the above, you are hereby advice to expedite an immediate
action
upon the receipt of this message by obliging me in your esteem reply
with
the following informations:
1. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
2. Personal email address
3. Home/Office telephone and fax numbers
4. Home or Office mailing address
5. Private email address
I hereby humbly inform you that you have 10 days to put claim over this
fund
as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, so that we can submit the
manuscript to the Debt Reconciliation Centre (D.R.C) unless you wish
your fund to be revoked by the above department.
We urge you to kindly channel all your replies on this email addresses:
(mark-merson@racemail.com) or mark_merson_barclaysbk2005@yahoo.co.uk for
security reasons.
While thanking you for your kind gesture and looking forward hearing
from
you in due course being the culmination of this excursion, I remain.
Yours in service
Mr. Mark Merson
Investor Relations Department Officer
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