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The “barrister” is looking for a reputable business partner and found
me. Along with a couple of hundred others…

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Barrister Ricardo Portal
Date: Sep 5, 2008 4:17 PM
Subject: From ; Barrister Ricado Portal (Estudio Juridico Castellana )
Urgent Reply is required of you
To: undisclosed-recipients

Barrister Ricado Portal
Estudio Juridico Castellana
Caracas, 27
Madrid 28010 Spain.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Before I proceed, I must first apologize for this unsolicited letter
to you. I am aware that this is certainly not a conventional way of
approach to establish a relationship of trust, but I do have limited
choice. My name is Barrister Ricado Portal a Solicitor working with
Estudio Juridico Castellana with address: Caracas, 27 Madrid 28010
Spain Actually, I got your contact address from the internet while
searching for a reputable business partner in your country’s public
records. My Late client Mr. Johannes Reinhold , a business mogul who
had casinos and restaurants, lived in Spain for many years, my client,
her husband and their one child were involved in an underground train
crash in the eastern city of Valencia as Victims of the Tuesday, 4
July 2006, Incident that befall the Spanish.

You can confirm through this website
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5143738.stm)

Before his death, on my advice as his lawyer he deposited One Trunk
Box/Diplomatic Personal Treasure, containing the sum of $7.5M (SEVEN
MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) cash with a security
company here in Spain, on a highly security form but he did not
disclosed the content of deposited diplomatic consignment to the
company, for security reasons. The security company has mandated me to
present any family heir/inheritor for claims, before the consignment
gets confiscated or reverts to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, as
unclaimed diplomatic immunity. So I decided to search for any of my
late client’s relative which has been very difficult for me, as he did
not declare any other person, address, partner or relatives in the
official paper works of his diplomatic consignment deposit. Mr
Johannes was my private client. I will not like you to involve any
third party in this transaction, just me and you .Besides I am doing
this on my own personal capacity and do n
ot wish to bring my office into i

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as
a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr. Johannes Reinhold, with
my position as his lawyer, I will now appoint and recognize you as the
heir. I will obtain every relevant document from the probate to make
your claim legal. Note that this process is not risky in any manner
and it is completely legal but might not be justified morally. Once
the fund is released to you, I am proposing 40% of the total sum to
you for your involvement.10% would be set aside for any expenses that
could be incurred during the transaction.

I would retain 50% for myself. Note that when the whole documents are
ready, it would be your responsibility to approach the bank and make
application for the release and transfer of the said funds. If this
proposal does offend your moral values please pardon me otherwise
reply via my private email address: ricadoportal@mixmail.com for
further clarification. Please be kind to get back to me if you are not
interested so that I can further my search for another partner.

Best Regards

Barrister Ricado Portal

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Not very easy to read, this one.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Micheal Williams
Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:11 PM
Subject: LEGITIMATE TRANSACTION
To:

¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!
Ahora puedes escribirme a:micwills777@yahoo.com.co

- Dear Friend,Permit me to present this proposal to you I apologize if
I offend you for sending this mail to you however, is a matter of
urgency and I would appreciate it if you can give attention to it. My
name is Micheal Williams(QC.), Solicitor and Financial Adviser to late
Mr. Bradley Robinson a property magnate and building contractor based
here in the U.K. On the Thursday July 7, 2005, my client Mr. Bradley
Robinson, 64, his wife Maria, 62, their daughter Andrea, 38, her
husband Christian, 57, and their children Katharine, eight, and
Maximilian, 10, died inside a bus that a bomb was planted in.
Hallmarks of al-Qaeda .For more information about this crash and
people, visit his Website:
//www.guardian.co.uk

his death he has directed me to liquidate these investments into cash
and depositthe proceeds into his account with a Financial/Security
Institution. My client was a successful and an accomplished family
man, who made enough fortune before his untimely death. He left behind
a large deposit in his investment account in the Financial/Security
Institution. Upon his death the Financial/Security Institution
contacted me as his Solicitors and Attorney to provide them with a
next of kin or foreign partner since the families he provided as next
of kin for the claim died with him in the crash leaving a vacuum to be
filled. I had made several inquiries on my own to locate any of his
relation but all has proved unsuccessful.Two weeks ago, the
Institution adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his
next of kin or his foreign business partner/associates based on the
Agreement he sign with the Institution for the fund to be released or
transferred to his next of kin (His family)! Or Foreign
Partner/Associate within 28 working days or forfeit the money to the
Institution as abandoned by the owner with no trace of next of kin.
The institution had planned to invoke the abandoned property decree of
1936 to confiscate the funds after the expiration of the period given
to me.By virtue of my closeness to the deceased and his immediate
family, I am very much aware of my client financial standing. I have
reasoned very professionally and I feel it will be legally proper to
present you as the next of kin or foreign partner of my deceased
client therefore, I seek your consent to present you as the Next of
Kin or foreign partner to the Deceased since you are qualified so that
the full proceed from his Account valued at #22.2 Million British
Pounds Sterling can be paid to you. I am proposing a negotiable
commission of 25% for you. I have all the required information and
shall assemble all the necessary Legal Documents that will be used to
back up our claim all I require is your honest co-operation to enable
us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under
a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law. Trust me as his personal consultant that this is arisk-free
transaction. If you think you are capable of handling this, get back
to me immediately and provide your personal contact details and e-mail
for further correspondence.Thank you and God bless. Yours truly,Micheal
Williams

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The same old story of a 22 year old needing a guardian.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Stella Moroba <m.stella86@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Subject: From stella moroba…..
To: m.stella86@yahoo.co.in

From stella moroba…..
Avenue 16 Rue 13
Treichville Abidjan
Ivory coast
 
Please Permit me to inform you of my mind, Because I have make up my mind to write to you this way. however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will in my earnest search for a reliable individual who can assist me to make this transaction a reality after going through your profile i decided to contact you to help me out of my problem.With my believe in God that you will never let me down.
 
I am a 22 years old lady now, i was born on the 1of january 1986 to the family of moroba and my father name is Joseph he is a very wealthy gold and cocoa   merchant who based in ACCRA   and  ABIDJAN respectively,  and my mothers name is Sheila.and  I am there only child.well when i was a kid i went to a private  schools and things were going on well for me and my parents my mother died  on the 21ST  october 1995, My father took me  so special because i  am motherless. and he shower all his love on me and promised me that he will never have another woman because he did not want me for any problem.but has fate his my father got dead last year.but before  the death of my father on the 12th  june 2007 in a private hospital here  in Abidjan,
 
he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sumof $9.500 000 (Nine million five hundred thousand united states dollars) in a bank in Abidjan Cote D’ivoire. meanwhile that he used my name as the next of kin in deposit of the fund.He also explained to me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business partner and that i should seek for foreign partner in a country of my choice where i would transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, such as;real estate investment or stock market investment. Plesae, i am honourably soliciting your kind assistance as follows.
 
1) To provide a bank account where this money will be transfered into.
2) To serve as the guardian of these fund  ,since i am 22yearsold..
3)To make arrangement for me in your country to continue my educational career and to   procure me a residential permit in your country.  
 
I am inclined to offer you 15% of the total sum as a mode of compensation for your effort after the successful transfering of these fund to your nominated account  overseas.Please i will be very happy if this transaction will be concluded with in seven (7) working days from now.I am expecting to hear from you as soon as
possible,
  
Best regard
 
stella moroba

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Yes, this is an inheritance scam story. Mark keeps it anonymous, that way he doesn’t have to do much research on a suitable deceased millionaire.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mark Akume
Date: 2008/4/22
Subject: Strictly for you only
To:

Dear Sir,
In this world of not knowing whom to trust i have decided to intimate you with a personal guided financial finding in my bank branch (National Investment Bank of Ghana) in which i am the acting managing director. I have been acting as the manager pending when the manager who is on course will resume for six months now and in my capacity i have discovered this account which have been left untouched for two and half years. On careful investigation i discovered that the owner of this account originally maintained two accounts with the bank. One of the accounts is savings account while the other is domiciled dollar account. The savings account was closed exactly one year eight months ago by a lady who claimed to be a fiancйe and business partner of the account owner.

On my curiosity i discovered that the owner of the accounts who was an oil merchant from your country died of heart failure two years ago and since then nobody have made any claim on the current account and no transaction have been carried out in the account throughout the two years. On checking the opening files of the account i also discovered that the owner has no next of kin and his last known address is Golden Tulip Hotel where he stays anytime he is in the country.
I have made all required bank inquiries which are normally made to trace owners of account which are left untouched for over two years and i discovered that nobody outside the bank have knowledge of this account. I have thought over this account for six months now and since it is left untouched with no one having knowledge of the account i have decided to have the money in the account removed to a safer place. The amount in the account is $2.6m with accumulated interest sum of $260,000.00(Two Hundred & Sixty Thousand Dollars)It is for this reason that i am contacting you so that i will use you to remove the money and close the account. I decided to contact you, a foreigner because of protection of my status and making sure i am not short changed which will happen if i deal with someone from my country. It is also much easier for the money to be claimed and transferred outside the country. It is for the reason of closing the account that i am contacting you.

I want you to stand as the beneficiary of the account by filing for next of kin of the account so that i will officially approve your request and have the money paid in your name. We shall share the money 80% for me and 20% for you. All i need from you is your co-operation and secrecy during and after the claim.

Get back to me with your full names, contact address, your age and marital status and phone number(s) for communication and i will employ the service of an attorney who shall process the paper work. As soon as I receive your response I shall open up on all details

Thank you and awaits your response ASAP.
Mark Akume

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