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Originally Posted by bobson
I got a letter from Attorney from Belgium that my unknown cousin left me 7, 500 000 Euros!!
Finally I can afford to buy 25" Obsession and full set of Ethos eyepieces 
My wife is so excited that she wants me to contact this moron and give him at least my email address. Who knows she said, maybe its true The sad thing is there are so many people who will respond to such a letter thinking exactly that.
Beware of this kind of fraud!
bob |
In your position, the best way is to contact the Belgian Consulate here in Oz and find out if the attorney your received the letter off is a member of a legitimate law firm. Then, contact the firm and confirm that the letter is legitimate, or not. You'll know very quickly if this whole thing is a scam.
If it's for real, then you've just inherited over $10.75 million dollars
Here's a story that I was told about some 7-8 years ago by a lady who received an inheritance off an unknown distant cousin. This lady had received a letter from a law firm in England about a cousin who had recently passed away and had left a sizable inheritance. Apparently, this cousin had no living relatives in his family and had been searching for the eldest surviving member of the main line of family. There were relatives in England but none of them were in the right line of the family, though they had received some money out of the estate. The law firm had traced the family out to Australia to this lady and her family out here and she was the eldest of the line out here. Turns out, this lady's family were the original doctors that setup Harley St in England and owned not only the clinics and hospital there, but also owned a considerable estate....some 4500 acres of prime manicured grounds and a whopping big mansion. Bu that wasn't all of it....they also had other properties throughout England...and....975million pounds in the Bank of England. She was the sole heir of the entire fortune!!!!. All she needed was a birth certificate of one of her ancestors to prove her rights to the inheritance and she was looking for it at the time we spoke.
I think she managed to find the birth certificate, from what I can gather from later news that I had heard. So, she went from just an average person to being a billionaire.
Just goes to show you that you can never know about these things