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I inherited 12.7 million dollars.
Allegedly. I normally ignore this stuff, but I was bored so I thought I’d see what happens.
This is the original email, a variation that I haven’t seen before:
FROM: Barrister Markus Bridges
Bridges and Bridges Chambers.
14, Avenue des Citronniers
98000 Monaco
PROPOSAL FOR BUSINESS OF MUTUAL BENEFIT
It is my privileged to capture your names from the internet. My name is Barr. Markus Bridges.a legal practitioner
and the personal Attorney/financial adviser to late Mr.Adams Graham,a foreigner who died along with his wife and his
Two sons in a ghastly motor accident along boulevard des Moulins express in August 13,2002.All the occupants in the
vehicle lost their lives. I am convinced that it was the grace of God that made me to locate you. My client
was a successful and an accomplished family man, who made enough fortune before his
untimely death. Since then I had made several inquiries through Embassy to locate any of my clients extended relative
but this exercise has proved unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives through
the Internet, to locate any member of his family not much progress was recorded. My late client was an influential wealthy
businessman, a Petroleum broker and he left behind a deposit of Twelve Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United States
Dollar($12,700,000.00USD) in his domiciliary bank account in a commercial bank here in Monaco.
After the death of my client his bankers contacted me, as his Attorney/Financial adviser to provide his next of kin who should
inherit his fortune. The board of directors of his bank adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for
the payment of this money within 28 working days or forfeit the money to the bank as an abandoned property.
The bankers had planned to invoke the abandoned property decree of 1996 to confiscate the funds after the expiration of
the period given to me. Despairing at the point of exhaustiveness, fortunately, I came across your name, to my utmost amazement ,
you are nationals of the same country. Convinced that you may be linked with my late client or that you might provide clue to my search,
I therefore, decided to contact you with these facts before me because of the situation now. By virtue of my closeness to the deceased
and his immediate family, I am very much aware of my client financial standing and the bank account he operates.
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, so that you can be
paid the funds left in his bank account, hence I contacted you. I seek your consent
to present you as the Next of Kin to the Deceased since you are at an advantage as a foreigner too, so that the proceeds of this Bank Account
valued at $12.7 Million Dollars can be paid to you. We shall both share the funds. 55% to me and 40% to you, while 5% should be for Expenses or Tax as your
Government may require, I shall assemble all the necessary Legal Documents that will be used to back up our claim . All I require is your honest cooperation to
enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. Please get in
touch with me by email acknowledging the receipt of this
mail.Chamber@fastermail.com
Best regard.
Barrister Markus Bridges.
Solicitor and advocate.
I wonder what he is an advocate of? Free tennis shoes for everyone? Interesting. As you can imagine, I was a little distressed to find that not only have some of my family died, but also that the guy is the executor of the estate is wanting to take 55% of the money! This simply could not do, so I have just responded:
Dear Mr Bridges.
Thank you for contacting me. As you can imagine, I was a little surprised,
and certainly very excited to get your mail. I had heard of the deaths of my
distant family (the Adams family, they lived in that big house… and had a
pet hand) through a family friend, who I’m sure you’ve had contact with
(their name is Suk Meoff (lives in Monaco somewhere)), and I was very
distressed to hear that they died in such unfortunate circumstances.
Apparently they never saw that steam roller coming and by then it was too
late and were squashed flat. Apparently, they didn’t need to be buried in
coffins, they were just folded up neatly and posted to the crematorium.
Except Johnny, who got sold on eBay as a stylish wall hanging.
Anyway, I want to arrange for that money to be sent to me. However, I was
little concerned to hear about the way the money is to be split. As the sole
remaining next of kin, it seems a little strange that I get 40% and you are
taking 55%? As the legal representative you’re not entitled to any of the
money – 100% of it should come to me. From that money, I will then pay your
fees and also slip you a little something extra, perhaps a Curly Wurly, or a
small atomic weapon, just to thank you for your honesty and integrity in
dealing with this matter.
Therefore, I should be grateful if you could send me 12.7 million dollars in
unmarked, non-sequential bills (sorry I don’t take cheques or credit cards -
don’t trust no stinking bank) immediately. Of course, if you fail to send me
this money, I will be forced to enact legal action against you to reclaim
what is rightfully mine.
My name is Boris and I look forward to working with you on this most
pressing and distressing of matters.
I look forward to hearing from you henceforth forthwith nothereinunder.
Yours faithfully,
B. Igcock
I wonder if anything happens… email me at borisigcock@thornworx.com if you don’t believe me… 
Funny email. I live in Monaco and can assure you that the Boulevard des Moulins is anything but an “express”. The average speed on this practically pedestrianised shopping street must be about 10 mph and I would be very surprised if there had been a fatal accident on it in the last twenty years or more. As for the Avenue des Citronniers, that’s a narrow pedestrian street just below – but the street numbers stop at number 8 (it’s easy to check: the telephone directory has a reverse lookup section where all numbers are listed in order of street name and number)! So don’t expect to find a number 14… There’s also a reverse look-up by phone number in numerical order – although +377 is the Monaco code, of course there are no 8 figure numbers starting with 47.
Wow, what a cawinkidink that we all have these long lost relatives that all tragically died the same way and they were all millionaires! Who would have thunk it. While I’m not witty enough to reply in the same manner as you all are, I think I might have a little fun and see where this goes. Although, I have heard that certain animals of the feine persuasion tend to die off tragically when they get too curious.
I go the same thing…but different names:) see below:
Alazne and Alazne Chambers.
14, Avenue des Citronniers
98000 Monaco.
Tel: +377-476-17436
Email: alazne_chambers@yahoo.com
Dear Sir/Ma,
I am Barrister Gracia Alazne, a legal practitioner and the personal Attorney/financial adviser to late Mr.Christopher York, A foreigner who died a long with his wife and his Two sons in a ghastly motor accident along boulevard des Moulins express in August 13,2002. All the occupants in the vehicle lost their lives. I am convinced that it was the grace of God that made me to locate you.
My late client was an influential wealthy businessman,A Petroleum broker who made enough fortune before his untimely death. I had made several inquiries through Embassy to locate any of his extended relative but this exercise has proved unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives through the Internet. My late client left behind a deposit of ($12,700,000.00USD) in his domiciliary bank account in a commercial bank here in Monaco. After the death of my client his bankers contacted me, as his Attorney/Financial adviser to provide his next of kin who should inherit his fortune. The board of directors of his bank adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of this money within 28 working days or forfeit the money to the bank as an abandoned property.
The bankers had planned to invoke the abandoned property decree of 1996 to confiscate the funds after the expiration of the period given to me. Despairing at the point of exhaustiveness, fortunately, I came across your name, and i am Convinced that you are linked with my late client or that you might provide clue to my search, I therefore, decided to contact you with these facts before me because of the situation now.By virtue of my closeness to my client and his immediate family, I am very much aware of my his financial standing and the bank account he operates. 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, so that you can be paid the funds left in his bank account, hence I contacted you.
I seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin to the Deceased since you are at an advantage as a foreigner too, so that the proceeds of this Bank Account valued at $12.7 Million Dollars can be paid to you. We shall both share the funds. 55% to me and 40% to you, while 5% should be for Expenses or Tax as your Government may require, I shall assemble all the necessary Legal Documents that will be used to back up our claim. All I require is your honest cooperation. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. I expect your response.
Best regard.
Barrister. Gracia Alazne.
Solicitor and advocate.
and so I responded:
Sure, but what are his outstanding debts? I must protect my self and family if I accept the 40% what is at stake? I need to have all legal documentsforwarded to me, via Fedex, so my lawyers may look at it too. If this is a hoax I want to be told it is. If there is no response from you in 24 hours I will assume this is a hoax and bring this email to the authorities so this may be traced. Thank you and I do apologize if I sound rude…it is not everyday your get an email like this.
Mrs. York
And they responded back with this reply:
Original Message
From: Alazne Chambers [mailto:alazne_chambers@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 4:18 PM
To: syork@tbri.com
Subject: Re: response to” Urgent Please!!!”
It is not a must for u to take up this transaction. and please stop abusing my credibility.
That is it…. very weird indeed…I am going to call the number
He actually replied…
He replied!