Next of Kin inheritance advance fee scam

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Christopher Long
43 Tanner Street London SE1 3DP
United Kingdom
Phone: +447024072180, +447011136386



Dear --------------

This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it should be treated as such. I am Christopher Long, a solicitor at law.

I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr. Mark ------- , hereinafter referred to as 'my client' who worked as an independent oil magnate in my country and who died in a car crash with his immediate family on the 5th of Nov 2002. Since the death of my client in Nov, 2002 I have written several letters to the embassy with intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail. More so, I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing laws by the bank in which my client deposited the sum of £9.8m GBP. The board of directors of the company now adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of this money within the next 15 official working days or forfeit the money as an abandoned fund. The company had planned to invoke the abandoned property Decree of 1996 to confiscate the funds after the expiration of the period given to me but after an investigation in the finance company, I found out that some members of the company wants to divert this fund into their private accounts for their own selfish interest and only want, to use the excuse that since I am not able to look for some one to make the claim, the money should be made unserviceable and that means submitting the fund to the government of this country and some to the company management which is not their main intentions.

By virtue of my closeness to the deceased and his immediate family, I am very much aware of my client's financial standing. I do sincerely sympathize the death of my client, but had thought it unprofitable for his funds to be submitted to the federal government of this country and the finance company where it is lodged. I have reasoned very professionally and I feel it will be legally proper to present you as the next of kin of my deceased client which is legally possible and would be done in accordance with the laws of the land. On this note I decided to search for a credible person and finding that you bear a similar last name, I was urged to contact you, that I may, with your consent, present you to the "trustee" bank as my late client's surviving family member so as to enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client, so that the proceeds of This Bank Account valued at Nine Million Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds Sterling only (£9.8million ) can be paid to you, before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable to the bank where this huge deposit is lodged. Note that this is legal and 100% risk free since I have all vital documents that would be requested by them and that would confer you the legal right to make this claim. I find this possible for the main reason that you bear a similar last name with my client making it a lot easier for you to put up a claim in that capacity. Therefore, to facilitate the immediate reprofiling of this fund, you need, first to contact me via my alternative email address signifying your interest and as soon as I obtain your confidence, I will immediately intimate you with the complete details as well as fax you the documents, with which you are to proceed and I shall direct on how to put up an application to the bank.

HOWEVER, you will have to assent to an express agreement which I will forward to you in order to bind us in this transaction. Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you by fax or E-mail the next step to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made for the completion of this transfer. 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 through my alternative email [email protected] for better confidentiality and send to me your telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss further about this transaction.

Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this. Please let me have your opinion as soon as possible for my contact number is +447024072180, +447011136386 and if this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent response.



Give me a call at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely,

Christopher Long
Phone: + 447024072180, +447011136386.



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PLEASE READ CAREFFULLY AND RESPOND, CONFIDENTIAL.?
From: Christopher Long ([email protected])
Sent: Wed 12/03/08 4:49 PM

Hello,

Thanks for your prompt response to my mail though you are still undecided on whether to assist me and prevent the plans of the top company directors from materializing hence will suggest that you call me at your earliest convenience on +447024072180.My prior mail to you was written as a matter of last resort because of the circumstances surrounding this claim and I know you will be wondering what the plans of the directors are but I want you to hold on while I give you the details on why I contacted you and also why this has to be kept very confidential. I contacted you because after the death of my late client, I was informed by the finance company to search for any member of his extended family (related especially consanguinally), to put up a claim, or who could be so represented as managers or trustees for his deposited funds with them which stands at over £9.8million British Pounds Sterling and due to the fact that he died with his immediate family members.

Mark was an oil merchant and he had oil dealings around Europe and Africa. He died in 2002 at 55 along side his wife and children. They were Christians. He lived most of his years here in the U.K but travelled often and I served as his private attorney for the last 9 years proceeding his death.After preliminary efforts of search which came to no avail, We were given an ultimatum at the beginning of the new year to look for some one to come for the claim or have the funds liquidated and made unserviceable in accordance with existing laws because it will be assumed that no member of his family is alive.However,it might interest you to know that, after a thorough investigation in the finance company, I found out that some members of the company are currently planning to divert this fund for their selfish interest and only want to use the excuse that since I am not able to look for some one to make the claim, the money should be made unserviceable and that means reverting the fund to the Government while the company retains a percentage of it which is not true as they are the people trying to divert it and not the government as they are making it look like.

After unraveling their plans and professional consideration on my part, I decided to look for some one credible, with the same last name with my late client, to apply for this claim due to the fact that I have at my possession some legal documents which are very important and which might be requested by them and which can only be provided by my chambers since they have since being with us. I feel and know that you will be able to make this claim SUCCESSFULLY because of your rare last name which is the same as that of my late client's . I want you to be rest assured that this is legal with no risk involved, since all the legal documents that gives you the right to make the claim is available.

This is a deal I am offering you and I want you to know that it requires only a matured mind to understand all I am saying and I believe you are matured enough which is the reason I am going further. I am taking my time to explain all these to you now because I want you to see the reasons why this transaction has to be kept really confidential in order for us to be able to achieve our goals neatly.NOTE that if they request to know how you came to know that your family member (Mark) had such an amount of funds with them and who contacted you, which I am not sure they will ask but in case they do ask,tell them I contacted you and they can get intouch with me for confirmation . Be informed that after a second thought,I will get 45% with 45% going to you and 10% will be shared between us for any expenses incurred during the course of the transaction and at the end of the transaction in which sharing will take place after taxes have been removed and that should be done in your country when the funds enters your account. I want you to know that I have these documents to show to you as proof but I cannot release them for your perusal now due to security reasons until I have attained your confidence.

I will provide you with any information you need as we proceed, bearing in mind that you have finally made up your mind to proceed for I do not want to jeopardize the success of this transaction which means so much to me at the moment. My private telephone number is +447024072180, making it possible for you to call me as it is very important we discuss.

Finally, you will have to accent to an express agreement I shall forward to you which is to bind us, especially after the transfer hence your urgent response is required

Christopher Long (Esq.)
Phone:+ 447024072180.

N.B: I called the number but could not be connected hence I will say you call me on my number and when calling from you country dial 011+my number for example 011447024072180 and will be connected to me

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I received the two above emails the week following Thanksgiving 2008. The Originating IP Addresses that I highlighted are a number assigned to the computer which the email that was sent to me came from. You can find this by viewing the massage source of an e-mail. The story presented in the above emails came across as authentic to me because the scammer contacted me directly, not through a spam email, and he used my Last name against me. My Last name is actually very rare and I am of European decent. Of course I was a little skeptical at first, but I had never heard of these 419 advance-fee scams before. Through out the process of being scammed I was emailed by "Christopher Long" above, another "attorney" named "Patrick Clarke", and a "Finance Company" named "Sprint Trust Finance and Securities" (which doesn't actually exist). Patrick Clarke emailed me from [email protected], and the Finance Company from [email protected] The IP Addresses which this scammer/scammers contacted me from were: 72.3.137.83, 207.44.246.76, 82.128.106.203, 77.220.15.132, 77.220.15.131, 82.128.46.113, 196.207.1.66, and 82.128.68.201. If you think you may currently be getting scammed and see these IP addresses in the "view page source" of your emails, be advised! Upon finding out that I had been scammed I checked all of the IP addresses from every email sent to me and it turned out that Christopher Long, Patrick Clarke, and the Finance company all shared the same Addresses. Which meant that they were all the same person, or at least the same group of people using the same computers. I was also in nearly day to day contact with this scammer via telephone and everything was very believable. These people obviously know what they are doing and are very good at it. I lost A LOT of money paying for "Attorney Fees" and "Back Taxes", so much that I do not feel comfortable telling how much I lost. Tomake the story more believeable the scammer "helped pay" for most of the fees I was supposed to pay. So the totals that are presented in the "official documents" below are not how much I actually lost, thank God! No one should lose money this way. These scammers are bribing innocent people from their hard earned/honest money and need to be caught! I finally caught on to what was going on after I was told that I needed to pay for an "Anti-Terrorist Certificate" before funds could be transferred into my bank account over-seas. However, after much research I found that they do NOT exist. So if you are looking for information on these particular certificates yourself, be advised, they do NOT exist!
During the course of being scammed I was given many electrical "official documents", including "Christopher Long's" passport and Call to Bar certificate (proof of being an attorney). Here is a list off all those, I have of course omitted my personal information:

Fake International Passport:


Fake affidavit change of ownership certificate document:


Fake affidavit of fund ownership document:


Fake affidavit of truth and claim document:


Fake verified application document:


Fake attorney contact document:


Fake change of ownership certificate document:


Fake death certificate document:


Fake deed of lodge document:


Fake certificate of deposit document


Fake call to bar document:


Fake Mandamus Document:


Fake Questions Document:


Fake Receipt of payment Document:


Fake Stop Order Document:


Fake Terms of service Document:

Hi Sylvia,

Welcome to Scamwarners and a big thank you for posting, it really does make a difference

i'm sorry to hear you've been scammed. As Ralph said, your story may help alert other potential victims. I'm listing some signs of a scam for the benefit of others.

lawyer.com financier.com

These are free email addresses. I'm not alone in wondering why mail.com supply them. I can see no legitimate reason for them, Lawyers, etc, can certainly afford to pay for domain names.

They were Christians

Unnecessary reference to religion is typical of Nigerian scammers.

Chelmsford Essex London

Chelmsford is in Essex, but London shouldn't be part of the address.
+4470 is a UK redirect number, redirecting to anywhere in the world. So not proof that you're speaking to anyone in the UK.

You do need to watch out for recovery scams now. From the scammer posing as the police, etc, saying that they can get your money back, for a fee of course.
I'm sending you a PM.

Hi Sylvia, I'm glad to see were able to get this all posted. You've done a wonderful job of recounting your story and the information about how you were scammed so that others will find the information.

As I've expressed in email, I'm sorry to hear what has happened to you. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this for the good of others. Please let me know any time you have any questions.

Yeah, there's no way in hell I'll be falling for any recovery scams! I won't EVER be sending any money to anyone for any reason. Especially if it's someone claiming to be the authorities asking me to send them money!

^^^^Good!
Some victims do fall for it unfortunately.

Hi Sylvia, Sorry to hear that you lost money to these people. This one went through a lot of work to scam you and seem very organized. Better than most. Hopefully your post will help to warn others.

Interesting I just did a search on the email [email protected] and found that one person asked the question who is [email protected] on Yahoo Ask...just 13 minutes ago...but than pulled the message immediately. I didn't get any other hits. I hope Google picks this up pretty soon to warn people.

The spiders will have it listed very soon I'm sure.

As HarversMoon said, these guys really did put some effort in on this one. The quality of their work is above par, so it's really not too surprising that they were successful.

I see that you've learnt a valuable - and probably expensive - lesson from this and that's good. A lot of victims don't seem to learn from their mistakes. A healthy skepticism will keep you safe in all aspects of life, not just online.

Thanks again for posting this.

i have also recieved this e-mail


Christopher Long
Phone: +447924350275 +447024072180.

Dear Brii Conner

This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it should be treated as such. I am Christopher Long, a solicitor at law.

I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr. Mark Conner, hereinafter referred to as 'my client' who worked as an independent oil magnate in my country and who died in a car crash with his immediate family on the 5th of Nov 2002. Since the death of my client in Nov, 2002 I have written several letters to the embassy with intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail. More so, I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing laws by the bank in which my client deposited the sum of £9.8m GBP. The board of directors of the company now adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of this money within the next 15 official working days or forfeit the money as an abandoned fund. The company had planned to invoke the abandoned property Decree of 1996 to confiscate the funds after the expiration of the period given to me but after an investigation in the finance company, I found out that some members of the company wants to divert this fund into their private accounts for their own selfish interest and only want, to use the excuse that since I am not able to look for some one to make the claim, the money should be made unserviceable and that means submitting the fund to the government of this country and some to the company management which is not their main intentions.

By virtue of my closeness to the deceased and his immediate family, I am very much aware of my client's financial standing. I do sincerely sympathize the death of my client, but had thought it unprofitable for his funds to be submitted to the federal government of this country and the finance company where it is lodged. I have reasoned very professionally and I feel it will be legally proper to present you as the next of kin of my deceased client which is legally possible and would be done in accordance with the laws of the land. On this note I decided to search for a credible person and finding that you bear a similar last name, I was urged to contact you, that I may, with your consent, present you to the "trustee" bank as my late client's surviving family member so as to enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client, so that the proceeds of This Bank Account valued at Nine Million Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds Sterling only (£9.8million ) can be paid to you, before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable to the bank where this huge deposit is lodged.

HOWEVER,Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you by fax or E-mail the next step to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made for the completion of this transfer. 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 through my alternative email [email protected] for better confidentiality and send to me your telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss further about this transaction.

Sincerely,

Christopher Long
Phone: +447924350275 +447024072180.

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Hi Chris

Welcome to Scamwarners

Thanks for posting

the more information that is publicly posted about these scammers the more likely it is that we can prevent others from becoming victims

Thank you

If you have any questions please dont hesitate to ask

I do want to check one thing though, if your post contains any of your real information could you please go back and edit it out,

I also received the beginnings of this scam.
My given contact was Andrew Wolley, Australian born with a British Passport.
Supposed to work for CITIBANK in London (no such staff member)
That was as far as I got.
Just thought that i would pass this on.

Welcome to Scamwarners and thanks for your posting. Once search engines pick up the name Andrew Wolley, potential victims may be led here.

I am currently involved in what I believe is one of these scams. I have been sending e-mails back and forth with a apasit poocharit man from Thailand who is dieing from cancer and has a sum of 20,000,000 dollars in a bank account in England. He wants me to invest the money into a business that I am looking to start and also buy up properties in the United States including a house for Him and His family. He says His lawyer will contact me with documentation. Sounds almost identical to the scam aforementioned in this board. I have asked him multiple questions to test His metal. Of course I am 100% certain that this is a scam I am going to have a little fun with this would-be thug of course I'm not going to give Him any other information and along the way I will most likley begin to funnel information to FBI. Anyway please let me know what else I should do in this situation by e-mailing me back @ [email protected]

josh

What you are describing is called scambaiting, and it can be both fun and productive (keeping the scammer busy and away from real victims, sometimes even taking out the scammers' websites and helping to get scammer bank accounts closed) when done safely and effectively. Our sister site, http://www.419eater.com is all about scambaiting, and you can find a whole range of hints, tools, and help from experienced baiters I would definitely recommend you check out eater if you want to mess with the scammers.

I will tell you that if you are responding from an email that traces to you (i.e. you signed up for the email in your own name), we will tell you to drop the bait as that would not be considered safe baiting. But you can always pick your friend up as a new character using a new (safe) email address.

To be honest, the FBI will not be concerned--they don't have the manpower or the authority to pursue low-level scammers in African countries.

These people actually went to the trouble of sending this same letter to me via (Snail Mail) Royal Mail out of London! It was the same letter just on paper and an envelope. The Attorneys name was changed to George Bede with an e-mail [email protected] phone number 44 2070602782 Fax: 44 2070602783 . The wild thing is that my address is a new mail box address that did not exist before seven months ago? I was not scamed but I wanted to post this so folks can google these numbers. I had to put several key words from the letter in before I was able to find it.

Bill