Spencer Chambers and Solicitors Email Fraud

You may have received the email below. If so you unfortunately are not about to receive a portion of $12.8 Million USD, rather you are the target of a scam often refereed to as a Nigerian scam. Scams like this often lead to financial and identity theft. Learn more about Nigerian Scams here and learn more about identity theft here.

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Following is the text of the scam email:
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-----Original Message-----
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Spencer Esq. [mailto:matthewspencer@lawoffice.com]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 12:18 AM
Subject: My Dear Friend, Reply Urgently.

From The Desk of MATTHEW SPENCER Esq.
SPENCER'S CHAMBERS & SOLICITORS
Address: 14a Edric Road, New Cross,London SE14 5EL, UK.
TELEPHONE: +447024091098.


My Dear Friend,

I am Matthew Spencer Esq a personal attorney to my late client who is a nationality of your country unfortunately died on Terrorist Bomb blast attack in Liverpool London on the 7th July 2005. Since the death of my late client, I as his personal attorney have made several enquiries to locate his relations for the inheritance claim without any success. I came across your name and contact on the course of my personal search for my late client relations/next of kin. so I decided to contact you for assisting in securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by my late client before it get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where my late client operates an account since the board of Directors of the bank has issued me a notice that after 2 months from now and no relation shown up for the claiming of the said funds, the funds will be confiscated and declared unserviceable.

Since the board of Directors of the bank have been unsuccessful in locating my client relatives for some time now, it's on this note that I seek your consent to present you as the relation to my late client, so that the process of this deposit to be released into your account. The amount deposited is $12.8 Million Dollars also I believe with your assistance to get the release of the ($12,800,000.00) I will agree to give you 50% of the fund while 50% will be for me. I guarantee you that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law.

I will be looking forward to your indication of interest so that we can proceed with the process of claiming the funds with the below information I will like you send to me:-

1, YOUR FULL NAME.
2, YOUR CONTACT MOBILE TELEPHONE AND HOME NUMBER FOR EASY COMMUNICATION.
3, YOUR FULL CONTACT HOME ADDRESSES.
4, YOUR AGE.
5, YOUR OCCUPATION.

As soon as I receive all these information from you I will start the process of all the legal approval documents with the above information you will send to me and present you to the bank Directors that I have locate the relation/next of kin to my late client since they asked that I should provide the relation/next of kin for them to release the inheritance fund to the person. Please let me hear from you as you acknowledge the receipt of my mail.

NOTE UPON YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS LETTER, PLEASE REPLY URGENTLY SO THAT CAN START THE TRANSACTION IMMEDIATELY.


Yours sincerely,

Matthew Spencer Esq.

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