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Brick Court Chambers
7-8 Essex Street
London WC2R 3LD

ATTN:MD/CEO,

I solicit for your good refine temperament on this unwarranted mail,
but hope you will consider it worth giving attention. Thus, a
pre-meditated contact, trust and honor which i bestowed on your personality.

I am Mrs.Margaret Gray, member of Brick Court Chambers London, call
into bar in 1998, Areas of Practice, Commercial Law, Insurance and
Reinsurance,Banking, Commercial Judicial Review.

I am, the Personal Attorney to a Foreign Contractor, who worked with a
Multi-national Oil Firm in London.
On the 11th of September 2001, my client, a Mexican National, late
Engineer Michael Creek,an oil Merchant / Contractor , until his Death Three
years ago in a Ghastly terrorist attack to american airlines flight 11,
from Boston,Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the
North Tower of the World Trade Centre with 92 people on board.
All occupants of the Aeroplane unfortunately lost their lives. Since
then I have made several inquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my
late clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After
these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives
over the Internet, to locate any member of his family but of no avail,
hence I decided to contact you.
I am contacting you to assist me in repatriating the money left behind
by my late client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable
by the Bank where this huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the
Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about US$3.8 million
dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the
account confiscated within the next ten official working days.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3
years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the
deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at $3.8 million
dollars can be paid to you and then you and I can share this money. 60% to
me and 30% to you,while 10% should be for expenses or tax as your
government may require,
I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any
claim we may make.
All I require is your honest cooperation 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. Get in touch with me
via my private email : margaretgray_brickscourtchembers@yahoo.co.uk to
enable us discuss on the modalities and process for the success of this
transaction.
Please feel free to make your interest known, as your response will be
appreciated.And i will like to have your Phone and Fax number for
smooth communication as internet might not be too confident in an important
business information.
Regards.
Mrs.Margaret Gray
Tel;44-7040-130-463or 44-7040-130-464
Brick court Chambers
(margaretgray_brickscourtchembers@yahoo.co.uk)

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[Sue Denim..]

These types of cons have been around for a while now in different guises. Ie. Pay some cash and get a big inheritance.

It is good fun replying however and keep saying that you've sent a cheque and have they received it yet. They can get really funny when they are desperate for your unforthcoming cheque and you keep replying 'Yes but I sent it 2 days ago...You MUST have got it by now!!!'.

It's funny how their spelling and grammer goes down the pan when they are emailing you to re-send a cheque in their best broken English.

[Sue Denim..]

.... and yes, I was implying that the sender of these emails is a foreigner.

I was told that a high percentage are from Nigeria!?

Originally Posted by Sue Denim..

These types of cons have been around for a while now in different guises. Ie. Pay some cash and get a big inheritance.

It is good fun replying however and keep saying that you've sent a cheque and have they received it yet. They can get really funny when they are desperate for your unforthcoming cheque and you keep replying 'Yes but I sent it 2 days ago...You MUST have got it by now!!!'.

It's funny how their spelling and grammer goes down the pan when they are emailing you to re-send a cheque in their best broken English.

LOL spelling, grammar

[skuzzlebutt]

it's known as the 419 scam...

after the reference penal code in nigeria... yep it is predominantly a nigerian scam.... they used to fax their crap before the advent of the internet.... problem is it is so easy to send out millions of these e-mails at very little costs hence the steadily increasing numbers.... and believe it or not people still fall for it...

apparently part of the scam can be that the scamee will visit the scamsters(under some official guise), the fraudsters will bribe an immigration official to get the scamee into the country... soon the whole payment starts going tits up and the scam changes as the scamee is an illegal immigrant in nigeria and black mail commences...allegedly, a few people have disappeared....

i hear, however, that one guy threatened to put a voodoo curse on one of the scamsters and after a few e-mails complaining that voodoo curses were a very serious matter (?!) the e-mail soon dried up.... so the story goes.. i've got a link to somewhere...

[EchelonDivision]

The easiest way to stop this is to not subscribe your email address to newsgroups and foreign mailing lists or advertisers and delete the email as soon as you open it. Do not forward it on. Report the email to abuse@yahoo.co.uk

People who fall for this are stupid.

[skuzzlebutt]

Originally Posted by EchelonDivision

The easiest way to stop this is to not subscribe your email address to newsgroups and foreign mailing lists or advertisers and delete the email as soon as you open it. Do not forward it on. Report the email to abuse@yahoo.co.uk

surely that's only effective if the e-mail was sent from a yahoo account?

Originally Posted by EchelonDivision

People who fall for this are stupid.

1. no shortage of them in the world...

2. stupid...or desperate... some of the people who have fallen for this are from the second world themselves....

[EchelonDivision]

Originally Posted by skuzzlebutt

surely that's only effective if the e-mail was sent from a yahoo account?



1. no shortage of them in the world...

2. stupid...or desperate... some of the people who have fallen for this are from the second world themselves....

The reply address is a yahoo account. If Yahoo shut it down, no-one else can get conned. They'll then use another address, which will also get shut down if everyone complained.

1. Well then, they deserve everything they get. Like banks offering students credit cards.

2. Desperation is no excuse. On the same premise, would they rob a bank out of 'desperation'. And... if they're that deperate, why not sell their PC?

[Hugh_Jazz]

Originally Posted by MKII

I was told that a high percentage are from Nigeria!?

This is quite good: www.419eater.com....a site dedicated to baiting the scammers.