Really, how stupid do these people think I am?

Mutual Agreement!!!

Dear friend

My name is Mrs. Larisa Sosnitskaya a
personal treasurer to Mikhail Khodorkovsky the Richest man in Russia
and owner of the following companies, Chairman CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian
Largest Oil Company) Chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable
financial institution with it’s Branches all over the world).

SOURCE
OF FUNDS:

I have a profiling amount in an excess of US$48.5M, which I
seek your Partnership in accommodating for me. You will be rewarded
with 10% of The total sum for your partnership. Can you be my partner
on this?
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My Boss got arrested for his Involvement in politics by
financing the leading And opposing political parties (the Union of
Right Forces,led by Boris Nemtsov, and Yabloko, a liberal/social
democratic party Led by Gregor Yavlinsky) which poses treat to
President Vladimir Putin Second Tenure as Russian president.

View the
below website and learn more about this story:
http://www.yukos.com
http://news.ft.com/cms/4bb9612a-d254-11d8-b661-00000e2511c8.html
http:
//www.hoovers.com/yukos/--ID__53700--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
http:
//newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html
Â
YOUR ROLE:

All I
need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the Above quoted Sum
and I will re-profile the funds with your name, which will enable The
European bank to remit the funds in question to you in your country. I
have decided to use this Sum to relocate to American continent and
never to be connected to any Of Mikhail Khodorkovsky conglomerates. As
Soon as I confirm your readiness to conclude the transaction with me, I
Will provide you with the details. Please reach me through this email
address for further corresponding.

Do
have a wonderful day as I await your immediate response.

Best Regards,

Mrs. L. Sosnitskaya.

I do wish that these scammers would learn to write English, it is immensely tiresome receiving a scam that is badly written.

YOU 'VE MADE IT!!!

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR
PROMOTION/PRIZE
AWARD DEPT.
SELECT LOTTO/DE LOTTO NL
Ref.No NLD/2300786008/06.
Batch No
10/044/SLN
Â
Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you the result
of the computer random selection for the SELECT LOTTO/DE LOTTO NL
International program held on 3rd of January, 2006.Your personal or
company email address, attached to ticket number 205-11465886-629, with
serial number 3772-99 drew the lucky numbers 7-14-17-23-31-44, and
consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category.
     Â
The email
lottery draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 900,000.000 e-
mail addresses of individual, companies, and corporate bodies picked by
an advanced automated random computer search ballot system from the
Internet. All participants email addresses were extracted/selected
through a computer balloting system drawn from 900,000.000 email
addresses from all over the world as part of our International
Promotions Program, which is conducted annually. No tickets were sold.
It was a promotional program from our software department in promoting
the benefit of the Internet usage. ( NOT TICKET WERE SOLD)
    Â
You
have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of (One Million
Untied Stated Dollars) $1.000.000.00 in cash credited to file REF NO:
NLD/2300786008/06 and Batch No 10/044/SLN, This is from total prize
money of Two million Dollars shared among two international lucky
winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Your funds have now been
deposited and insured with our affiliate security firm for transfer
into your nominated bank account either by means of wire transfers
through any of our correspondent banks or any other means suitable to
you.

We also advice that you keep your winning information very
confidential as our security policy demands to avoid double
claims/impersonation and unwarranted taking advantage of this program
by participants.

To begin your claims, you are urgently requested to
contact our claims agent (Textron Securities) Amsterdam-Netherlands
immediately with your telephone number and fax numbers, and make sure
you quote your, REF NO: NLD/2300786008/06,Batch No: 10/044/SLN your
name and contact details in all your correspondence with the finance
institute.

Your allocated claims agent details are as follows.
Company Name: Textron Securities Bv
Officer in Charge: Mr.Jeffery Bosch
Tel/Fax:
E-mail:Â

Remember,
all winnings must be claim not later than 5th of May 2006. After this
date all unclaimed funds will be return to the promotion company.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs.Noraly Mattews
(Claims Coordinator)
SELECT
LOTTO/DE LOTTO NL

What a load of illiterate garbage!

If anyone can tell me what an "arphan" is, para 3, I would be greatly obliged:)

Suffice to say, this is a scam; throw it away if you get one.

Dear Sir
Your contact came to me through an internet resarch for
foreign contact,
I am Miss Mary Daniel, the daughter
of a respected politician in Gabon Central Africa, the
politician who died recently in Paris. Since
his death and even prior to the announcement, I have
been thrown into a state of confusion,
humiliation, Frustration and hopelessness by the
the Gabon Government
I have even been subjected to physical and
psychological torture. As an arphan that is so
traumatized, I have lost confidence with everybody in
the country at the moment. You must have heard over
the media reports on the discovery of some Fund in my
father's secret bank account and companies and the
Allegations Of some huge sums of money deposited by my
father in my Name of which I have refuses to disclose
or give up to the corrupt Gabon Government.
In fact the total sum allegedly discovered by the
Government so far is in the tune of about $6.5 Billion
Dollars. And they are not relenting on their Effort to
make me poor for life. As the African community has no
regards for women, that is my desire for a foreign
assistance. I have deposited the sum of 14 million
dollars with a security firm abroad whose name is
withheld for now until we open communication.
I shall be Grateful if you could receive this fund
into your bank account or open an account for safekeeping
and any Investment opportunity.
This arrangement is known to you and my personal
Attorney. He might be Dealing with you directly for
security reasons as the case may be. In view of the
above, if you are willing to assist for our mutual
benefits, we Will have to negotiate on your Percentage
share of he $14,000,000 that will be Kept in your
position for a while and invested in your name for my
trust.
In case you don't accept please do not let me
out to the security and international media As I am
giving you this information in total trust and
confidence I will greatly Appreciate if you accept my
proposal in good faith.
Yours sincerely,
Engr Mary Daniel

Substitute "No Hope" for the phrase "New Hope" and you have a more realistic description of this pathetic scam.

You do not "win" lotteries unless you enter them, it really is as simple as that!

EURO MILLIONS ESPANA
AWARD/PROMOTIONAL DEPARTMENT
BERCELONA.SPAIN.
http://www.loteria.com/euro.php


EMAIL-LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMM

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the email lotto programme draw of the EURO MILLIONS held on the 30th of december,2005. The late release of this result was due to difficulties encountered in sorting out mixed up numbers and email addresses.All 10 winning addresses was randomly selected from a batch of 5,000,000 international emails Your email address emerged alongside with 10 others as a category "D " winner in this year's euro millions award Draw.

Most recently the foundation set up the NEW HOPE LOTTO to give out prizes based on the computer ballot system(THEREFORE YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUY A TICKET TO ENTER FOR IT.YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS RANDOMLY SELECTED AS A WINNER).

Consequently,you have therefore been approved a MEGA JACK POT of 466.812,79 euro (Four hundred and sixty-six thousand, eight hundred and twelve euro,seventy-nine cent)only .The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i)the file Ref number: PR/04679/ASS
(ii)Result winning numbers:8-16-19-43-45-1-4
(iii)email ticket number:754/22/76

To immediately claim your prize,contact the claim/paying agent on the telephone number below.

EURO MILLIONS AGENCY S.L
=========================
Mr.Costa Vella
calle colon 1(28972).Barcelona,spain.
TEL:
TEL:
EMAIL TO:

The above claim agent will assist you in the processing and remittance of your prize funds to you,note that you are to cantact within two days After this date if you do not contact and process your winning prize, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

N.B:Terms and conditions to claim your prize:
***************************************************
1.Please quote your Reference number,your full name and address,Country, Telephone,mobile,fax number and occupation to your calim agent.

2.Your winning prize is not deductable until your winnings has been processed,approved and transfered to you by your claim agent above.The beneficiary is responsible for the(VETT/APPROVAL CHARGES)of his fund to his/her country.

For verification on your lucky winning prize,you are to visit our online site(http://www.loteria.com/euro.php) and indicate the date this email lottery programme draw of the EURO MILLIONS was held (30th of december 2005)and there you will find your result winning number.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,CONGRATULATIONS!!!.This promotion programm is sponsored by euro millions to encourage the use of internet.All informations have to be kept out of public until you have received your winning prize,this is to avoid double claim and unwarranted abuse of the programme by some participants.

Sincerely,

Maria Jose.
Promotions Manager
Euro Millions

-------------------------------------------------
This e-mail transmission contains information

What a faker!

Ref: ZA-296-ENQR / Wing Lung


I work for Yokozuna Financial Consultancy that is in the middle of a very important enquiry. I am getting in touch with you on behalf of ourclient, which is a top Chinese Bank (Wing Lung Bank).We are conducting a search for any next of kin for a particular investor who has passed on.

Please do you have any relatives who migrated to Hong Kong in 1977 and passed away in 1991. Also are you aware of any relatives who might have been into real estate or a huge investor in Energy.

We understand that this might be all too sudden for you, however we will appreciate that you get back to us even if no one of the above description is known to you.

This will help us put an end to this matter. The reason we are getting in touch with you is because you share the same name with the individual.

Please can you send us a mail indicating if you know any one with the above description. Also If no one of such description is known to you please send us a mail stating that, as this Will help us stop further communication with you.
Can you please send your reply to me , as I am in charge of this enquiry.Please kindly get in touch by email to this enquiry, as this will enable us stop further communication with you.

Thanks
Nera Wangushi
Email Address:

This scammer claims that I have won money from the Microsoft lottery.

How stupid does he think I am?

YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WON $ 1,000,000.00 Reply to: microclaims001@netscape.net


FROM THE DESK OF THE COORDINATOR [MICROSOFT GLOBAL EMAIL LOTTERY]
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
MICROSOFT B.V. 44 Boeing Avenue, 9459 PE Schiphol-Rijk.
=====================================
Ref. Number: 132/756/40027
Batch Number: 538901527-BC722


Dear lucky winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Our Global Email Lottery program held on the 20th March, 2006.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 37511465899-6410 with serial number 4872-510 drew lucky numbers 7-14-88-23-3545 which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for the sum of $ 1,000,000.00 USD (One Million United States Dollars).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money Remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 company and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from across the Globe as part of our International Promotions Program. This program takes place every three years. We hope with part of your winning you will take part in our next USD 50 million international lottery.

To file for your claim, please contact our claim office:
=====================================
DR. ROY HANS (MICROSOFT LOTTERY CLAIM OFFICE)
32 Palmstraat, Amsterdam-Netherlands.
Tel:
FAX
E-Mail:
=====================================

Note: For easy reference and identification, find below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your correspondence with your claims agent, also indicate your country and city.
Ref. Number: 132/756/40027
Batch Number: 538901527-BC722

Congratulations once more from our members of staff, and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Sincerely yours,

Mrs. Susan V. Smith
Lottery Coordinator.

I received this email twice today, addressed to me and addressed to a made up name. The two letters were "signed" by two different people.

On the face of it, to the uninitiated, it could be genuine. Unfortunately it is a scam.

Were I to respond I would find that one of, or all of, the following things would happen:

1 I would be asked for an upfront processing fee, which I would never see again

2 My id would be stolen and used for fraudulent transactions

3 My bank account would be used for money laundering.

Do not respond to this scam if you receive one of these emails.

I represent a company seeking for part-time
financial contractors. I will describe the offer in a few words below:



Our company XEX ltd is a trading - financial company is
seeking for employees to work with financial correspondence.

Requirements:
- basic knowledge of computer (email),
- free time (approx 1 hour per day),
- good communication skills



To be our representative on the full-time/part-time basis, either one
of the following options is required (a perfect candidate would be
eligible for all three):


- bank account to withdraw/receive funds,
- ability to cash money orders and certified checks (only for USA, UK and DE),


We are an international trading company. Our main office is located in
Ukraine.



The policy of our business is similar to a multi-level telemarketing
company, except for our correspondence managers do not sell anything,
they are in charge of delivering the financial communication from our
customers to our company main office.
Money turnover of our company already reached the certain heights and
we are in search of regional managers, who are willing to manage our
customers database.


Salary schedule is contract-based, our employee will receive payments
based on their work load. Usually it is about $18000 per year, tax
applied. This is a part-time job, our contract worker needs to prove
his ability to manage correspondence in order to qualify for higher
rates and full-time job status.



Our regional employees have good perspectives of increasing their
work-load and salary, depending on their efforts.

We need two representatives, so please respond fast if you would like
to start immediately. In this case, please email for more details.
We will email or fax you back an application form.




Sincerely,
Elnora Kelly
Please reply to:
Team manager
XEX ltd

A scammer who claims to be a Liberian general wrote to me today.

He rambles on about diamonds and the like, suffice to say it is a con.

Avoid at all costs!

Dear Friends,


I wish the best in life for you and your family, and I hope you will receive this mail in good spirit and respond quickly with ultmost secrecy and confidentiality,I got your address through my professional relationship in discharging of my duties for my government.



My name is Gen. Anthony Johnson. and I was the chief of security and operations for former president Charles Taylor of Liberia.Please protect this mail for the safety of my life and that of my family to avoid us being tortured or killed by his left behind secret agents.



Please I humbly beg you from the bottom of my heart to listen very carefully,the situation in my country is very critical and chaos, uproar and hostilities had brought the country to its knees and from intelligent report the center cannot hold anymore for former president Charles Taylor and his government.



The intense pressure from united states, united nations,international community and west African peace keeping to[Ecomog] had made him former president Charles Taylor to step aside and gone on exile and also pressure to face war crime charges against humanity.



Listen very carefully, you know my country Liberia is very rich with diamonds,and with my position as former chief of security and operations I have accumulated so much diamonds which I had sold to generate close to us$30Million over the years and it is this fund that I want to move to you for safe keeping.

The fund are in boxes in dollar denomination and it would be sent to you through diplomatic courier service with your name as the beneficiary within few days.

Please would you do me a favour to receive this fund for me? Else the government in power will seize the fund and plunder it. If you are capable and know that you will truly and honestly help me, write me now, time is no more on my side.

I will give you 30% of the fund and I will come to you country to take my part. Extend a friendly hand and help me. Please bear in mind that this fund is not a loaned or stolen money but rather a hard earned money generated.If you are willing to help me in this transaction,please furnish me with the followings:



(1) Your telephone number, Fax number (Mobile phone if any)

(2) Your postal address

(3) Your full name and a little pre-amble about yourself -I mean your age, Marrital status, What you are doing for aliving e.t.c

You can reply to my private email address for your good interest for this transaction :



Yours Sincerely,

Gen.Anthony Johnson.

Robert Mugabe's son wrote to me today, well at least that is what the scammer would try to have me believe!

Suffice to say, it is a con trick; and not a very good one either.

I hope that none of you are stupid enough to fall for this obvious scam.

DEAR SIR,
Compliments of the day,I understand quite well that this message will sound so strange to you but it is a very serious matter that we need to tackle together very urgent. Before i proceed further,Let me formally introduce myself to you .I am MR. JOHNSON MUGABE, 30 years of age, the first adopted son of president Robert Mugabe, the current Zimbabwean President. I am contacting you today for an urgent assistance to transfer into your account the sum of US$ 19.8 ( NINTEEN POINT EIGHT MILION STATES DOLLARS). I hope that you may be aware of the recent differences that is going on rigth now between my father and the opposition party in my country, this also brought about the commonwealth community sanctioning my father and freezing all his foreign account both in America and britain.This decision was carried out during the 4 days Commonwealth meeting that was held in Malawi in a part of South East Africa recently.
It will interest you to hear that i never supported my fathers treatment to the white zimbabwean citizens, and this has seriously brought about some personal misunderstanding between me and my father.I have been opposing him since the past five (7) years. Fight so hard to see that he leaves the presidential seat after governing for past 32 years On this account i disassociated myself from him and we do not have any thing in common right now.He even forced me to leave the country with immediate effect after receiving the sanction from the common wealth community, Although he thought that i am behind his delimma. In the year 2004 when i was in good term with my father, he gave me a treasure box containing the sum of US$19.8 milion to deposite in a private security company in Thailand for safe keeping, So i did exactly as he instructed me without disclosing the actual content of the box to the security company,every documents was signed and documented in
my names and details.This money has been lying in the security company for the past 8 months.
Now that he sent me out on exile, i left zimbabwe to Thailand where i am currently seeking political assylum.My aim of travelling to Thailand was to claim the money and transfer it out of Thailand to any other country that will be safe for investment. I am contacting you therefore on the account that you will support me to secure the fund in good condition and also come over to Thailand so that we can both claim the fund together, and then we travel down to your country for proper investment of the fund.
I have visited the security company and made every neccessary enquiry concerning the fund and it is still intact in the security house.I will compensate you with 7%of the total sum (i.e US$ 1,386 000.00) and i have set aside another 8% (i.e US$1,584 000.00) for any expenses that may be incured during the transaction. Please this is a very confidential matter that needs utmost secrecy and confidentiality, so i am really pleading to you to try as much as possible to keep every aspect of this confidential. Please also do not reveal it to any one as my hope and futture solely depend on this money and if you are willing to work with me and assist me on this transaction,then do not hesitate to contact me immediately by sending me your TELEPHONE and FAX NUMBERS,and reply me through my e-mail address for us to carry on with the next step of the transaction.
Hoping to receive your positive response soonest.

BEST REGARDS,

MR. JOHNSON MUGABE

My thanks to one of my visitors who sent me this scam.

They claim to be based in the UK, yet use the American spelling "center".

Come on chaps you have to do better than that, if you are going to trick people out of money!

Yahoo!mail Lottery Promotion
Support Center
Bevan House
51 Bevan Avenue
Conwy LL28 5AF
United Kingdom
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
REF NO: BTL/4410X1/02
BATCH NO: 11/05/0104
RE: AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE
Yahoo Email Lottery Promotion wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Yahoo world wide held on Saturday 11th March, 2006. Your email address was attached to ticket number 71210900545-319, with serial number 0382/05 drew with lucky numbers 11-43-42-17-50-43, and consequently you Won the lottery in the (A) category. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses of all kinds of domain.

You have therefore been approved a lump sum of ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED GREAT BRITAIN POUNDS.
Be adviced to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program, For the release of your prize money, kindly contact your prize release agent:
===========================================================
Agent: Mr Kenneth Taylor
Email: kenntaylor@london.com

Tel:+447031846398

Fax:+447075757030

===========================================================
You are to provide the information below to your funds release agent to process your winnings.
Name:
Address:
Occopation:
Nationality:
Age:
Tel:
Fax:
Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you contact him. Also remember to quote your lucky number for confirmation on your winning in every correspondences with your funds release agent.
All winning must be claimed not later than 31st of march, 2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to Yahoo Email Lottery Treasury as unclaimed. Furthermore, should there be any Change of your address; do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations!! again from all our staffs and thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Paul Gray
Zonal Co-ordinator
(Promotions Manager)

These scam emails would be marginally less annoying if the scammers learnt to write them using decent English.

Suffice to say, this one is a con throw it away if you receive one.

Million Dollar Lottery International
Euro Afro Asia Promotional Draws
***************************************************************************************************************
Claims Department
Ref: MDLI/000254813/123
Batch: 65/IT/007654MDLI
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw of the Million Dollar Lottery
International program drwas held on FRIDAY 4TH OF MARCH, 2006.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 616003251 with Serial
number 05-05/22514 drew the lucky numbers: 08-25-75-31-04-67, which subsequently
won you the lottery in the 3rdcategory . You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of Five HundredThousand United States Dollars ( US$ 500,000.00 )
in cash credited to file Ref: MDLI/000254813/123 .This is from a total cash prize of US $ 12,500,000.00 , shared amongst the first Twenty-Five (25) lucky winners in this category.
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 500,000 individual/ company e-mail addresses. This promotion takes place annually.
In view of this, your US$500,000.00 ( Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to you by our payment office in Europe.
To begin your lottery claim, do contact the claims manager :
JOHN COLLINS
CLAIMS MANAGER
MILLION DOLLAR LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
agentjohncollins@netscape.net
Note that all winning must be claimed not later than 15TH MAY,2006.
After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next year
sweepstake.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications do remember to quote
your reference and batch numbers in all correspondencies with your claims agent.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do not hesitate inform
your claims manager as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.
Yours Sincerely,
DR. MARIA ANGELA ZAURI
million_dollar@zwallet.com
Lottery Coordinator
***************************************************************************************************************
DISCLAIMER: This communication is for the exclusive
use of the intended recipient (s) and shall not attach
any liability on the originator, Million Dollar Lottery International.
If you are the addressee, the contents of this
letter are intended for your use only and it shall not
be forwarded to any third party, without first
obtaining written authorizations from the originator.
It may contain information, which is confidential and
legally privileged and the same shall not be used or
dealt with by any third party in any manner without
the specific consent of Million Dollar Lottery International. CAN

This scam arrived in my mailbox today.

The scammer claims to be a lawyer working for a dead client, she claims that I am bequeathed a large sum of money and that letters to me have been returned unopened.

Needless to say this is a scam:

1 If she really had my address the letters would have got through

2 The scam letter is poorly written, and contains numerous spelling and grammatical errors

3 I have never heard of the "dead" man

were I stupid enough to respond, the scammer would ask me to pay a "processing" fee; after that, I would never hear from her again.

NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST
MR. HENDRIK JAN
Solicitor, Advocate and Notary
Public Office
Tel:
Email:

Attention: Bequest Beneficiary

Attn: Friend,

Congratulation! On
behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr. Morgan
Williamson, I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter to you
through the Post Office was returned undelivered, therefore I now
attempt to reach you via your e-mail message as it appears to be the
next and the only option left unexplored.

Engr. Morgan Williamson
(late), made you a beneficiary in his will, he left Fifteen Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$15.5m) to you in the
codicil and last testament to his will. My client,Engnr Williamson was
a pioneer member of STRABAG CONSTRUCTION CO.LTD, a God fearing person
and Philanthropist.

He died on the 9th day of February 2004 at the
age of 82 and his Will is now ready for execution. Please If I reach
you as I am hopeful I will, endeavor to get back to me as soon as
possible to enable me conclude my job so as to be very free from any
blames or blame that might come up in the near future you should
forward along your current telephone and Fax numbers, your current
mailing address for verification.

You can also write through my
chambers email address which is on this letter, I congratulate you for
this is a significant honor indeed as it behooves you therefore to act
at once to avoid risk of forfeiture to the deceased family.

Respectfully yours,
Karin Meijer.
{Secretary}

Note: As your solicitor
i please advice to keep this information from member of the public
until your inheritance is duely and claimed.