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URGENT FROM BARCLAYS BANK PLC

Subject: URGENT FROM BARCLAYS BANK PLC
From:  	"Accountant James Morgan" <mr.james199@yahoo.de>
Date:  	Mon, August 27, 2007 2:31 pm
To:  	xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Priority: Normal

Dear Sir/Madam

I am an accountant with BARCLAY'S BANK PLC LONDON. My name is Mr. James Morgan. I am the Personal Account officer to Engineer. Andrew Wilson, a National of your country, who is a contractor with the DEPARTMENT OF EXXON MOBILE OIL LONDON. Herein after shall be referred to as my client On 30 JAN 2000,my client, his wife and their three children were involved in the Alaska Airline with registration number 5A-BEN which departed from Nairobi to destination London and all the passengers on-board and the flight crew, including his family died in this fatal aircrash on 30 JAN 2000. Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended Relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful after these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Barclay's Bank London where these huge amountwere deposited. The deceased had an account valued at about($17.5 Million US Dollars) and the Barclays Bank 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 6years now, I seek your consent to present you as the representative, next of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at ($17.5 Million US Dollars) can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money 50% to me and 40% to you, While 10% for unforeseen bottle necks we might incure in this transaction. An attorney will be contacted to help us revalidate and notarize all the necessary legal documentsthat can be used to back up any claim we may make in accordance with the British Government.

Please indicate your willingness by sending the below information for more clarification and easy communication.
Your full name.
Your contact address.
Your tel and fax numbers.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of the law.

Best regards,

 Mr. James Morgan

Our Comments to this email

First we have to emphasise that this email have nothing to do with Barclays Bank Plc. We thought that we could follow this up to unmask this Mr James Morgan.

Our reply

Subject: RE-URGENT FROM BARCLAYS BANK PLC
From:  	xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  	Tue, August 28, 2007 
To:  	"Accountant James Morgan" <mr.james199@yahoo.de>
Priority: Normal

I can confirm that I am very much interested in your proposals. But in any case as you rightly said we have to trade courteously because of what might be a sort of legal landmine that may or may not arise during what I hope will be our interesting business relation.

For the moment I can only give you my full name which is Frank Ian Lambert, but please feel free to call me Frank.

Please can you give me more information about Mr Andrew Wilson? I must express my sincere sympathy about this unfortunate lost of your client.

Best regards,

F Ian Lambert

Unfortunately our generous solicitor friend never replied again to give us the information we want.