Nigerian Scam Using Wellstone's Name?
This is not a gag, this is part of an actual email I received:
However, I am Barrister Phillip Andrews,the personal attorney to the late Senator Paul lane Wellstone, a Citizen of the United states and he was into politics.
On the 25th of October 2002, my client,his wife and their three children were involved in a fatal Plane Crash near Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport.
Unfortunately they all lost their lives includingother people in the Plane.Since then I have made several enquiries to several Embassies to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace and locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted you.
I contacted you to assist in repartrating the money and property left behind by my client since I have no place to locate any of his relatives. I can easily convince his bank in the Europe with my legal practice that you are the only surviving relation of my client.Otherwise the Estate he left behind will be confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged.
Particularly, My late client had an account with one of the banks in Europe valued at about US$9.3Million (Nine Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
which I witness the documentations before he left for the states on 24 october 2002.
Conseqently,The bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin to my client since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives.
I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$9.3Million (Nine Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) will be paid into your account and then you and I can share the money. 55% to me and 40% to you,while 5% should be for expenses,tax as your government may require.
This is disgusting, but then nothing swindlers will do surprises me any more.
