Mr. Steven, a barrister from lagos nigeria approached me through email to make a claim against the estate of a Mr. John Rawlins who had no living relatives. I was asked to open an account to which 17 million dollars would be transferred to this account and I was to keep 40% and return 60% to him. What raised my already high suspicions was that he continually used the terms trust and Confidentiality. Here are copied emails he has sent to me.
From: Barrister. Anthony K. Steven.
Of Adewale & Adewale Chambers.
19 Allen Avenue Ikeja
Lagos Nigeria.
Attn: Rawlins
Request for your assistance
I am barrister Anthony K. Steven, a solicitor at law. I am
the personal attorney to Mr. John B. Rawlins, a National
of your country, who used to work with the Shell Petroleum
Development Company in Nigeria. Here in after shall be
referred to as my client. On the 21st of April my
client, his wife and their children were involved in a car
accident along Sagama express-road. All the occupants of
the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives.
Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy
to locate any of my clients extended relatives this has
also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful
attempts, I decided to track 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 properties left behind by my
client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the bank where these huge deposits were
lodged. Particularly, the DOLPHIN INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC,
were the deceased has an account valued at about SEVENTEEN
MILLION, THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO THOUSAND UNITED
STATES DOLLARS (US$17.322M) has issued me a notice to
provide the NEXT OF KIN or have the account confiscated
within the next few weeks now.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives
for more than two years now. I seek your consent to
present you as the NEXT OF KIN of the deceased since you
have the same last name with my client, so that the
proceeds of the account valued at (US$17.322M) can be paid
to you and then you and me can share the money. 60% to me
and 40% to you. I have all necessary legal documents that
can be used to back up any claim we may make.
All I require from you is your honest co-operation to
enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee you that
this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you and me from any breach of the law. Please
I will want you to send to me your telephone and fax
numbers for easy communication, and also to have a brief
discussion in regards to this transaction.
Do send your reply on my email address immediately.
Best regards,
Barrister. Anthony K. Steven.
N/B. You should always use my confidential email address
for all your replies. [address removed by usacomplaints.com - to respond, post a Rebuttal] As soon as I receive your urgent resposne, further details will be given to you.
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