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Old 25-08-2010, 09:02 PM
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Unknown causin left me 7.5 million Euros :)

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!

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Old 25-08-2010, 09:09 PM
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You mean they sent an actual paper letter???

I get several of these emails every day, but never heard of a paper one

I guess they realise not many people fall for the email scam any more so they are reverting back to snail mail.
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Old 25-08-2010, 09:41 PM
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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

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Old 25-08-2010, 09:44 PM
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If it's for real, then you've just inherited over $10.75 million dollars
Fat chance, regrettably
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Old 25-08-2010, 09:57 PM
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Fat chance, regrettably
There's no way of knowing unless you make the effort to find out, in these situations. You have to be careful, but it's best to do the research and legwork just to be sure about it.
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Old 25-08-2010, 10:03 PM
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At least a letter is a tad more believable than an email because it takes a lot more effort & expense to send a letter.
As Carl said, look into it.
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Old 25-08-2010, 10:15 PM
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The letters have been around longer than the emails have, and as a consequence, the elderly get suckered into these traps.

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Old 25-08-2010, 10:23 PM
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The letters have been around longer than the emails have, and as a consequence, the elderly get suckered into these traps.

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That's why they need to look into it and make sure it's legit. If not, then they can be reported to the proper authorities.

If it's legit, then how lucky would you be!!!.
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Old 26-08-2010, 12:25 PM
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As Carl said it's probably worth doing a bit of background reasearch.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

A phone call to the embassy is probably worth it.
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Old 26-08-2010, 08:00 PM
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I've won the lotto so many times I should be able to get NASA out of the poo!

Now wheres that money!

Best fun,, is simply leading them on - waste their time

You'll usually find theres some kind of "charge" to get the money to you - that's a pure and simple giveaway. What, they can't deduct the $200 handleing charge from the 20,000,000 mil you have just won - hahahaha

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Old 27-08-2010, 07:14 AM
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Yeah, yeah, yeah... I got a similar letter from attorney's in Spain a few years ago. They used a law company's name and very similar letter head. The only different was 1 character different in the URL for their web site and the PO Box was one character different as well.

The legit solicitors were very interested! I never heard anything about it though...

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Old 27-08-2010, 10:56 PM
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I sent him email asking for more details to see what is he going to say

Its a big letter and I cant be bothered to scan it to post it here. He claims this person was his client and left all those millions of euros in the bank. Now he wants this money otherwise bank will keep it. So he found me with the same surname as his clients and thats the reason he contacted me.

Now, he said he will give 10% to charity and other 90% we split in half! Very genorous man He would do everything himself as he is a barister. This has to be top secret he said at the begining of the letter. Well its not any more I guess

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Old 28-08-2010, 01:16 AM
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Looks like it just went from interesting to very dodgy.
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Old 28-08-2010, 02:14 PM
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I've won the lotto so many times I should be able to get NASA out of the poo!

Now wheres that money!

Best fun,, is simply leading them on - waste their time

You'll usually find theres some kind of "charge" to get the money to you - that's a pure and simple giveaway. What, they can't deduct the $200 handleing charge from the 20,000,000 mil you have just won - hahahaha

Cheers
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We get the same thing....they seem to think people are idiots. Well, some are, but you'd have to be supremely gullible to fall for their nonsense.

Just for fun, I went onto Google Maps one day to find where these guys were posting from, in Kansas (where most of the US ones are from). It's an empty warehouse near the corner of a three way road just down the road from a turnoff onto a freeway.
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Old 28-08-2010, 02:46 PM
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You got more chance of winning lotto i think
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Old 29-08-2010, 12:31 PM
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After sending him email asking for more info I received email back with explanation about the whole thing and supporting documents.

The problem is I checked websites that he sent me with whois and both are registered just last month

He is a barrister in Belgium but sent copy of USA passport?
His diploma with his name is from Madrid Spain?

He sent me even death certificate of the late cousin.
Form asking me my particulars.

Looks like identity fraud to me.

Here is email sent to me who wants to read it:


Dear XXXXXX,

I welcomed your quick responds to my proposal, this proves you are a
highly qualified business person and the right person to handle this
transaction with me.

Before I give you more details on the procedures may i remind you that we
have a code of conducts guiding this business deal, our rules and
regulations must not be violate or breached by any party. Please always
contact me with this email for security reasons because it is my private
email.

It's said that we must not disclose this business deal to any body,
organization or authority, that the transaction must remain a business
deal between me and you, that we must not involve a third party or
disclose any information related to this business to any single person be
it friends or relative to avoid eyebrow and to mark the success of this
legal business.

Before we proceed I want you to realize that we are not harming any body
or family, you may ask why you are to stand as the deceased next of kin
instead of a real relative of the deceased to stand for this claim, the
answer to such question is simply that Late Newman, had no existing
relative to claim his balance from the bank, since the demise of his death
in the year 2003 all effort to locate his extended relative and family
members through their consulate and foreign affairs ministries where all
in vain.

Un-operative account can no longer exist more than six years in BELGIUM
banks, after two years the account would be placed under dormant vault,
then after some four years the account must be closed as unclaimed bill if
the owner(s) or relatives of the account beneficiary fails to claim the
fund left in the account.

I have receive ultimatum of only 21(twenty one) working days as the
deceased attorney to present the deceased heir or have the account closed
as unclaimed bill, another question is when this account is closed as
unclaimed bill what happens to the money, the answer is this, 70% of the
total sum goes into government treasury account at the apex government
Bank, while 30% of this fund is shared amongst the Governing Board of the
Bank.

You will agree with that leaving this fund to disappear just like a think
wind is senseless when I have all the facilities required to claim this
fund through your help. You are to stand as the next of kin to the
deceased since you have same surname with him, that's all I need because I
have all documents and information required to make this things happen.

Before further procedure let me give you guarantee that you will not face
any queries or hindrance now or after the successful conclusion of this
business deal, you can agree with me that I can not associate my self in
any business / transaction that my bring curse or problems to my family.

The sharing Ratio remains, 10% to any Charity Organization of your choice
in your country, and the remaining 90% be shared equally between yourself
and me.

Moreover am a legal practitioner , I can not just damage my hard earned
reputation, my plan is to join politics and contest as a member of my
country national assembly so I have no reason to dent my political
carriers because of this money.

Back to the Procedures:

Without wasting much time, I will have to explain how we are due to
commence this deal. I have draft a specimen text of application, you can
find the application attached, please simply fill your name address and
telephone numbers bellow and file the application to the Bank via E-mail.

ING BANK ANTWERP
Antwerp Lange Gasthuisstraat 20
2000 Antwerp, BELGIUM
BRANCH: P.O.BOX 345,
BRUXXELLES, BELGIUM
Tel/Fax: +32 (0)2 791 91 49
E-mail: audit@ingbeonline.com / ingaudit@accountant.com

You are sending this application to the Director of Foreign Remittance
Dept of ING BANK ANTWERP (ING) in the person of Miss Jane KRISTOFIS, the
Director have already assured me of his maximum cooperation in this matter
as long as you can be able to provide supporting evidence to your claim,
the supporting evidence is just some documents related to this account or
some evidence of death, all this are available but I can not precise which
one will be required by the bank, but I'm here to provide any documents or
information on demand by the bank.

Please download the attached application and send to the bank now to
signal the commencement of this legal business deal, I'm getting my self
ready to appear in country for business negotiations and sharing of the
fund once this fund comes to your account, moreover your bank will not ask
you any question on how you make this fund, the bank here will send
inheritance documents to your bank to avoid questioning you, so you are
just free of any question after all. Send the application to the bank
email and provide a reachable contact details to communicate and advice
you when necessary.

Regards,
ESQ. Philip VanLeeuwen
PHILIP VAN LEUWEN & ADVOCATEN
Vlaamse Kunstlaan 3
2020 Antwerp / Antwerpen
Anvers, Belgium
TEL/FAX: +32 492 209 684
E-mail: documents1960@gmail.com
Website: www.vanleuwenadvocaten.com


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Old 29-08-2010, 01:04 PM
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Old 29-08-2010, 01:28 PM
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These scams have been around a long long time you will get absolutely nothing

if he asks for a bank account number make sure you have a seperate account set up with nothing in it
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Old 29-08-2010, 02:12 PM
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Hi I just joined today. I got a letter too saying someone with the same surname but no living relatives left 7.5 mil euros and if I would agree to collect it he would split it with me 10% to charty amd the rest divided between us. He said he would provide the fake documentation so that I could collect the money. The letter was dated 20/8/2010 but the envelop was stamped 2008.10.19 ? It would have been nice
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