Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
Andreas Schranner (of the blessed memory) (2005)
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From: John Martin johnmartin2007@yahoo.com
Reply-To: John Martin johnmartin2007@yahoo.com
Date: Sep 21, 2005 11:19 PM
From: John Martin esq.
The inspiration to contact you is simply divine providence,I am making
this proposition because I have to seek the partnership of a resource
person to help me realise this project.
I am John Martin esq a solicitor and investment consultant based in
london, United Kindom. I was attending a business luncheon in
Berlin,Germany and I got introduced to the renowned German businessman
and property mogul, Mr Andreas Schranner (of the blessed memory).
He engaged my services as attorney and investment consultant and my
primary assignment was to spearhead his investment forays in the
United Kingdom.three months later I invited him to London and under my
professional guidance and based on my advice he made a fixed deposit
of 30,000,000,00EURO at with security companies in Germany and
Netherlands.
This deposit was for 12months and upon maturity I made effort to
contact my client, I could not reach him or any member of his family.
I was forced to travel to germany and there I got the tragic news that
on July 25TH, 2000, my client Mr. Andreas Schranner, his wife maria,
their daughter eich and husband christian and their two children
perished in the Air France concorde New York bound flight; please
click here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
I have made effort to locate any member of his family with strong
biological links to my late client without success. The search to find
a close relation is one that has consumed time and resources.The
institution is asking me to either present a next of kin to late
Andreas Schranner or forfiet the depsosit. My proposal is to you as
next of kin to late Andreas Schranner and process the deposit and
collect the deposits for our mutual benefit.
My capacity as solicitor/investment consultant to my late client gives
me the discretion to package and transfer the deposit to you.
I will give you 30% for your effort, 60% for me and 10% for Charity
and Tsunami Victims. It will amount to injustice if i do not take this
decisive step to secure this deposit, and invest it. The late
Schranner was also a friend in addition to our business relationship.
I will wait for your reaction and response and then together we can
jumpstart this project and nurture it to reality.
Your swift response is anticipated.
Yours faithfully
John Martin
