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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: "Alex"<barristeralexbaker@myway.com>
Reply-To: infrom_baker@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:20:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Urgent attention
12th Floor Premier House112 Station RdEdgwareLondonHA8 7BJEmail;infrom_baker@yahoo.comGoodDay Sir, Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it with the seriousness it deserves. This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. This is a personal mail directed to you and I request that it be treated as such. I am Barrister Alex Baker, a solicitor at law.I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr.Kenneth , 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 on the 4th of oct,1998. Since the death of my client in Oct, 1998, I have written several letters to his Country's embassy with 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. More so, I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing laws by the bank in which my client deposited the sum of 10.8 million pounds (Ten Million, Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds Sterling). 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" Bank as my late client's surviving 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 bear the same last Name with my late client making it a lot easier for you to put up a claim in that capacity. I propose that 35% of the net sum will accrue to you at the conclusion of this deal in so far as I do not incur further expenses. Therefore, to
facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, you need, first to contact me by signifying your interest and as soon as I obtain your confidence, I will immediately appraise you with the complete details as well as send you the documents, with which you are to proceed and I shall direct on how to put up an application to the bank. However, you will have to accent to an express agreement which I will forward to you in order to bind us in this transaction. Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you by fax or E-mail the next step to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made for the completion of this transfer. Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this. Please send me your Private Phone and Fax numbers, Full Names and complete contact Address so I can call you to discuss this matter.(Email;infrom_baker@yahoo.com Best regards,
Alex Baker. (Esq)
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