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Monday, August 25, 2008

Richard Potts - Irwin Mitchell

 

Fraud.

One out of five!

It should be noted that Irwin Mitchell are a respected firm of lawyers and there is absolutely no chance that they have anything to do with this. It just shows how fraudsters will stoop to anything.

Dear Friend,

I am Barrister Richard Potts of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, and a personal attorney to late Mr Chung, who was an oil merchant and oil service contractor in richest ashland oil petroleum development company here in London United Kingdom, who lost his life in an air crash involving a Korean Airline Boeing 747-300 Flight number 801 on August 5, 1997 in which 227 passengers out of 231 including crew lost their lives during one of his business trips to Korea.you can verify this accident in following the website: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/korean.crash/

Before the sudden death of late Mr Chung , in the ill-fated airplane,he open a pounds sterling account with a bank here into which he deposited GBP14,500,000.00 with no indication of his next of kins.Following this unfortunate incident,I was instructed by the bank to locate his family who is surposed to stand as the next of kin to late Mr Chung used to visit his bank with me as his attorney to recommend his next of kin for the payment of the GBP14.5 million on or before 12:Noon on this date 9/11/2007, standing to the credit of late Mr Chung . All efforts I have made so far to locate any member of the family was unsuccessfull so that is why I want you to Re-present as next of kin to the deceased since he never introduced any nor wrote his will in favour of any bodies name before the accident.


The purpose of contacting you is to present you as the Next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued of GBP14,500,000.00 can be paid to you, as my clients Next of Kin, and then we can share the amount on a mutual agreed percentage, because if no one comes forward to claim the money,the bank will confiscate the account and convert it to its own use.

If you are interested,contact me by return mail as I shall give you details of how we will proceed including terms of sharing the money.

Have a blessed day.

Best Regards.

Barr.Richard Potts
Irwin Mitchell Solicitors
Principal Partner
150 Holborn
London.
EC1N 2NS

Important Notes :-

1. Whatever you do, do not respond to any e-mail like this. If you have given bank details to any fraudster like this, then inform your bank immediately and also make sure that you close the account.

2. If the e-mail mentions a well known e-mail address such as from gmail.com, live.com, yahoo.com etc., then why not forward the offending e-mail to abuse@gmail.com, abuse@live.com etc. Hopefully, they'll remove the e-mail address, which will stop people being sucked in.

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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just recevied the exact same email from this person actually.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 3:41:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Barrister Irwin Mitchell of london United Kindom and I am the personal attorney to late Mr Chung, who was an oil merchant and oil service contractor in richest ashland oil petroleum development company here in London United Kingdom. who lost his life in an air crash involving a Korean Airline Boeing 747-300 Flight number 801 on August 5, 1997 in which 227 passengers out of 231 including crew lost their lives during one of his business trips to Korea.you can verify this accident in following the website

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/korean.crash/.

Before the sudden death of late Mr Chung, in the ill-fated airplane,he opened a pounds sterling account with one back here into which he deposited GBP5,500,000.00 with no indication of his next of kins.Following this unfortunate incident,the bank has issued me a notice to provide the Next of kin, or have the account confiscated and all efforts that I have made so far to locate any member of the family was unsuccessfull,that is why I want you to Re-present as next of kin to the deceased since he never introduced any nor wrote his WILL in favour of any bodies name before the accident.

The purpose of contacting you is to present you as the Next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued of GBP5,500,000.00 can be paid to you, as my clients Next of Kin, and then we can share the amount on a mutual agreed percentage, because if no one comes forward to claim the money,the bank will confiscate the account and convert it to its own use.


If you are interested,contact me by return mail as I shall give you details of how we will proceed including terms of sharing the money.

Have a blessed day.

Best Regards,

Barrister Irwin Mitchell

I just received this today and didnt think it would be real.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 3:43:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i also have received this "if it's too good to be true... " fraudulent Email, and yes dear sirs, have reported it as abuse and spam thank you

Monday, September 15, 2008 5:15:00 am  

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