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Recieving an email like this will make the difference, bottom line you will be involved with fraud if you respond, an you will be the victim:

Scam Letters: 542 different examples!
By date received, with names of supposed senders, country where the money is supposed to have originated, and amount. Many duplicates omitted. Many of these emails have been reformatted for readability; the recipient's email address, and all angle brackets or HTML tags were removed. All of the other email and postal addresses, phone numbers, etc., are as given in the email, but be warned, do not attempt to contact the perpetrators!. They are ruthless and violent criminals.

Dear Sir / Madam,
 
My Name is Mrs. Grace Ace, Corporate Secretary to Tony Murray & Co., London - United Kingdom. We are conducting a Standard Process Enquriy on behalf of the Management of an European based Financial Institution.This investigation involves a client (Mr. Watford) and the circumstances surrounding investments made by this client at the said Financial Institution..
 
The Financial Institution client who died "intestate" nominated no successor in title over the investments made with the Financial Institution worth £20.5M GBP (Twenty Million,Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds).The essence of this communication with you is to request you provide us information/comments on any or all of the four issues:
1- Are you aware of any person or relative / relation in the person of Mr. Watford, whose last known contact was Scotland?
2- Are you aware of any investment of considerable value as stated above made by such a person at the Fund / Treasury Department of the Financial Institution?
3-Whose age was mid 50's
4- Can you establish beyond reasonable doubt your eligibility to assume status of successor in title to the deceased?
 
*** If you can't provide us information / comments on any or all of the four issues. -- Are you willing to co-operate with us by given us your consent to present you to the Management of the Financial Institution as the successor in title over the investments. It is pertinent that you inform us asap whether or not you are willing to co-operate with us that we may put an end to this communication with you and our inquiries surrounding this personality.
 
Thank you for accommodating our enquiry. Mrs. Grace Ace. Corporate Secretary "Tony Murray & Co." 25 Bridge Street, Staines Middlesex TW10 8TP, London, United Kingdom Tel: +44-702-4098825 & +44-702-4098522 Confidential E-mail: tonymurray_co@sify.com Please let us know your view via our Office Confidential E-mail as thus: tonymurray_co@sify.com  NOTE: For security reasons always quote the above Reference Number:CAP/FI/EU/346/08) in every one of your correspondence with this office ***PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL***
 
This e-mail and any attached files are from "Tony Murray & Co." and are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited.If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail.
 
E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information can be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. "Tony Murray & Co.", therefore does not accept any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.

How did they get my email address?

Exactly the same way all spammers get your email address. Spammers "harvest" email addresses mentioned on web sites. Others run "dictionary attacks" - programs which query mail servers if they have an address AAA100, AAA101, AAA102, etc. That's why you get tons of unsolicited commercial email even if you've kept your email address a secret. And spammers sell each other CD's with millions of addresses. Remember that practically all spam email is fraudulent anyway, so there is no reason why sellers of penis enlargement pills and vinyl siding wouldn't sell lists of email addresses to Nigerian scammers.

Be safe, be careful and don't be greedy!

Comments (2)

Not a real person
San Diego, CA

With so many spelling and grammar errors, it's an email that would have gone straight to the trash bin.

Jun 12, 2010 05:43 PM
Fred Sweezer Sr. CMI, LLC.
Hud Certified 203K Consultant - Long Beach, CA
HUD 203k Consultant

Yep that is where I put them!

Jun 24, 2010 01:09 PM