To be the next of kin

Philippines
September 24, 2008 3:06am CST
The sender wants to get my permission to have me stand as a next of kin so that funds can be released in my favor as the next of kin. This is very convincing and yet very risky on my part if I allow them to get my personal information. What do you think. Hello Dear, I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a large sum of money from a dormant account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day PROPOSITION I discovered an abandoned sum of US$7,500, 000.00 (Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign Customers (an American) late George Brumley. This very account has been dormant for some years now. After my investigations, I discovered that the account owner has died since July 2003 with all his family members in a plane crash, Please click this link: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html Since his death, nobody has come forward to lay claims to this money and recently my bank issued a notice that the account will be declared unserviceable and the funds called to the government treasury since no relative of the deceased customer came up. In order to avert this negative action, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin so that funds can be released in your favor as the next of kin. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following if you are willing to work with me Actually. 1. Your full name 2. Postal address 3. Profession 4. Telephone and fax numbers This information will enable me work on the Deceased account file so as to indicate you as his next of kin after which you will formally apply for the release of the funds as the next of kin to the Deceased customer to this bank I work at. We are going to share the total sum on final conclusion of this project on a 50-50 equal. If you are truly disposed and capable of handling this, reach me immediately. Regards, Andrew Toure
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• United States
24 Sep 08
SCAM SCAM SCAM!! Dont respond, just delete the email. and above all, DONT GIVE THEM ANY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION! thousands and thousands of ppl get these emails (and a number of variations on the same general theme) every single day. sad to say some ppl do fall for it and are tricked out of money, or their Identity stolen..shoot who knows what else they can do to you once they have some basic personal info. DONT fall for it, just delete and forget about it.
• Philippines
25 Sep 08
This kind of email is really a big scam. thanks for your response. Yes I wont give any information about myself. This kind of mail would maybe just want to victim me.