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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: "Timi Alaibe" <steven_ed8@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: steven_ed@mail2triallawyer.com
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:01:05 +0100
Subject: Unclaimed "INHERITANCE" (Read and get back to me asap)
STEVEN & CO
213A Clapham Road SW9 0QH, London
United Kingdom
Direct Line: +44 702 407 6939
Direct Fax: +44 207 681 1190
Dear Partner,
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. From
your profile, I do not have any doubt in your ability to handle an
international business of considerable TRUST, which may form the bedrock of
an extensive business partnership in the future.
PROPOSITION:
I am Barrister Steven Edward, a solicitor at law. I am the personal
attorney/sole executor to my deceased client who worked as an independent
oil magnate in my country. My client had an investment of a Fixed Deposit of
5.5m US dollars at a yearly roll-over interest rate of 10% per annum with
the HSBC BANK PLC, London in 1999. The investment was to mature in 2004. My
client and his wife were married for over 28 years without a child. On the
forth of August 2002, he had a heart failure on hearing that his only
companion(his wife) died in a head-on collision with a truck. Apparently,
this fund does not have any claimant and no family member has surfaced as
they have lived in UK all their life and never bothered about extended
families. The bank thereafter contacted me to find the family of the
deceased especially now that the only beneficiary, who is the wife is also
deceased.
All my effort to locate his families in Dubai, India, Nepal, Saudi Arabia,
Pakistan, Turkey etc proved abortive and knowing that this fund shall be
converted to UNCLAIMED DEPOSIT and therefore be forfeited if nobody comes
forward to lay claim to the deposit before the end of first financial
quarter of 2007, as is the practice and also indicated in the EU banking
guidelines, I find it wise and business like to contact you to have a deal
with you as you and the deceased shared same last name.
THE DEAL:
The DEAL is that I intend to present you as the family member to the
deceased and have you apply for the claim of this fund. Well, I know very
well that the bank may want to verify and undertake its normal bureaucratic
investigation, but I assure you that with all the legal, bank and personal
papers of the deceased in my possession, and knowing fully well that I am
the only one who can give unquestionable testimony on the deceased's
investments and property declaration, it would be pretty easy if you
co-operate with me as a team to claim this fund, especially with the
advantage of same last name that we have. The proceeds shall be shared
amoung the two of us 50/50.
I seek your understanding to have you stand as the Beneficiary/Next of Kin
to the deceased. Do not be bothered as we will carefully and legally work
out all necessary documents in your favor as the new
Beneficiary/Next-of-Kin to the Estate. I want to count on you as a person of
respect and honest disposition and hope that you will handle this
transaction with all maturity and confidentiality it deserves.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 intimate 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.
I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint
me.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Steven Edward (Esq)
NOTE: If however, you are not disposed to assist, kindly delete/destroy this
email in view of the confidentiality of the proposed transaction and
interest of personalities involved. And also note that I cannot use my
official ID to contact you because of our webmaster in order to keep this
secret between us. Thank you.
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