{"id":3733,"date":"2008-05-01T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/05\/everyone-can-be-the-next-of-kin\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T09:26:00","slug":"everyone-can-be-the-next-of-kin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/05\/everyone-can-be-the-next-of-kin.html","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Can Be The Next Of Kin"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>If you are reading this, and are not a regular reader, you\u2019ve presumably come here hoping that you may in fact be the next in line to a fortune. You aren\u2019t. Lots of people get the same e-mail, which is an attempt to scam you out of personal information and eventually money.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it, please. What banker offers to split the money with you? What banker contacts you from a generic gmail address (ray.wells60@gmail.com)? What banker has tracked you down as the \u201cnext of kin\u201d but doesn\u2019t address you by name?<\/p>\n<p>Please do not be so gullible in the future. Sooner or later it will cost you money!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">_________________________________<\/div>\n<p>FROM:RAY WELLS<br>INTER-SECURETRUST &amp; PRIVATE BANKING PLC,<br>LONDON,UNITED-KINGDOM.<br>30\/4\/08.<\/p>\n<p>Your Attn,<\/p>\n<p>I am Ray Wells, the system director at the INTER-SECURETRUST &amp; PRIVATE<br>BANKING PLC,i wish to solicit for support and assistance from you to<br>carry out this business opportunity in my bank.<\/p>\n<p>Lying in an inactive account is the sum of Twenty Five Million<br>USDollars(25,000,000:00$) belonging to a foreign customer(Hopcraft<br>Lawrence) who was a gas consultant here in UK,he happened to be<br>deceased<br>during a business trip with his wife(Hopcraft Pauline) on board the<br>Swissair Flight 111 , which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia<br>in<br>september 2nd 1998,info of this crash was on the news which we have<br>tried<br>to notify his relatives but to no avail,see link below for more<br>detailed<br>information:<\/p>\n<p>www.cnn.com\/WORLD\/9809\/swissair.victims.list\/index.html<br>www.cnn.com\/WORLD\/americas\/9809\/08\/swissair.02\/index.html<\/p>\n<p>Ever since he died the bank has been expecting his next of kin to come<br>and<br>claim these funds which they cannot release unless someone applies for<br>it<br>as next of kin, as indicated in our banking guidelines,unfortunately he<br>has no family member in UK or Over-sea who are aware of the existence<br>of<br>the money,at this junction, i have decided to do business with you by<br>soliciting your assistance in applying as the next of kin to the bank<br>then<br>the money will be released to you as i do not want the money to go into<br>the bank treasury as an unclaimed bill,because the banking laws and<br>guidelines stipulates that if such money(s) remains unclaimed for a<br>period of ten years(10yrs),the money will be transferred into the bank<br>treasury as an unclaimed bill.My request for a foreigner as next of kin<br>is<br>occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a British<br>cannot stand as next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>50% of the money will be your share as a foreign partner and your<br>assistance to actualise this deal while the rest 50% will go to<br>me,thereafter i will visit your country with your help once the money<br>hits<br>your account for disbursement according to the percentage indicated.To<br>effect the immediate transfer of the funds to you as agreed,you must<br>apply<br>first to the bank as the next of kin to the deceased,then we will<br>follow<br>up all formalities for the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Upon receipt of your reply, i will send to you, the text of application<br>you are to send to the bank,and further clearify you in other issues as<br>to<br>effect this deal.<br>Awaiting your speedy response.<\/p>\n<p>Best Regards<br>Ray Wells.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5630690408787393195?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are reading this, and are not a regular reader, you\u2019ve presumably come here hoping that you may in fact be the next in line to a fortune. 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