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From: "Alvan Gibson" <alv_gibson9@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: alv_gibson@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:32:29 +0000
Subject: Calvary Greetings
From The Desk Of
Esq Alvan Gibson
14 Kingfisher Square Staunton Street,
Deptford, London, SE8 5DA United Kingdom
Dear Sir/Madam,
This is a personal email directed to you and am requesting that it be treated Confidential. I do not mean any disrespect contacting you in this manner. I had to contact you this way because of the time constrains. I am Alvan Gibson a personal attorney/Sole executor to the late Engr.RobertM.Corbato a Nationality of your country hereinafter referred to as” my client". I represent theinterest of my late client killed with his entire family in a fatal motor accident in East London onNovember 5, 2002.and I will like to negotiate the terms of investment of resources available to him.My late client, a formal Sub-Comptroller working with Chevron Texaco Oil here in the UnitedKingdom had left behind a deposit of Six Million Eight Hundred Thousand British PoundsSterling only (£6.8million) with a finance company. The said fund originated from contracttransactions he executed in his registered area of business. Just after his death, I was contacted by the finance company reasons been that his last Will and Testament contains a residuary clause,giving his personal attorney express authority to nominate the beneficiary to his funds. in such acase where the original Depositor had died.The funds had remained unclaimed since his death, but I have written several letters to theembassy with intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiariesof his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail. The fact is that my late client had left no possible records for trace of heirs for me.I had no choice but to inform the finance company about my fruitless effort in locating my lateclient close relative or his next of kin. The board of directors of the company had again informedme to provide his next of kin for the payment of this money within the next 15 official workingdays or forfeit the money as an abandoned fund. The company had planned to invoke theabandoned property decree of the company to confiscate the funds after the expiration of the period given me.In addition, I have received official letters in the last two days suggesting a likely proceeding forconfiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing laws of the institution. but itwill interest you to know that as the pressure mounts, I discovered that some directors of thisfinance company where making plans already to have this funds to themselves only to use theexcuse that since I am unable to find a Next of Kin to my late client then the funds should beconfiscated.Mean while that is not their intentions but rather to have the funds retrieved for themselves.Well I reasoned very professionally and resolved to use a legal means to retrieve my late client'sabandoned funds. That is to present a next of kin of my deceased client to the bank. 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 asimilar last name with my late client making it a lot easier for you to put up a claim in thatcapacity. I have all vital documents that would confer you the legal right to make this claim andwould make them available to you so that the proceeds of this bank account valued at £6.8millioncan be paid to you before it is confiscated or declared unserviceable to the bank where this hugeamount is lodged.I do sincerely sympathize the death of my client but I think it is unprofitable forhis funds to be submitted to the government of this country or some financial institution.My aim is to retrieve this fund and let it be claimed by the deceased family name, etc. for this Iseek your assistance since I have been unable to locate the relatives for the past 3year now andsince no one has come for the claim. 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 which also makes theclaim most credible. In that stand, the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Then we talkpercentage. I know there might be other persons out there with the same surname as my last client, but after a little search and 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.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is hitch-free and that you should notentertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made for the completion of thistransfer. As I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this. This proposal is acceptable byyou do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you, Thanks for yourunderstanding.
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