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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: George Eke <grgeke15@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <barristergeorge_eke@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:33:46 +0100
Subject: Reply Soon
Dear Friend,
I am Barrister George Eke from London. A solicitor at law, I was the Personal attorney to late property magnate Mr. Mark Jackson who died in Greek air crash with his wife Maria and their only daughter Andrea. No survivors in Greek air crash.All 121 people on board a Cypriot airliner are feared dead after it plunged into a hill near Athens after an apparent drop in cabin pressure.
Please go through this websitehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4150312.stm
I have contacted you because i want you to help and to assist me to get most especially, the money left behind by my late client before it get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank.The deceased made a lodgment valued at about sixteen million seven Hundred thousand United States Dollars only [$16,700.000.00] and the financial institution has permitted me to provide the Next of kin, or have the account confiscated.I want to present you as the next of kin.
This is what we will do. I want you to furnish me with the information's stated below to enable me open a claim file and application that I will present to the bank introducing you as the next of kin to my late client.
1. Your full name - 2. Phone Number/Fax Number 3. Home/ Office Address 4. Your Age 5. Occupation 6. Sex
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Please get in touch with me as soon as possible to enable us discuss further about this transaction.
Best Regards, Barrister George Eke
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