When I returned from holidays yesterday I was surprised to find an blank envelope with a postal stamp from Lisbon, Portugal in my postal mail since I do not know anyone in Portugal.
When I opened it, it contained a letter with the letterhead Prades Asociado, supposedly from a Spanish(!) law firm. The letter was addressed to Meulie Evert (instead of Evert Meulie) and was supposedly from Barrister Jose Grande. (a quick Google has shown me that there is a law firm named Prades Asociados Spain , and that they do employ someone named Jose Grande.)
I will include the entire text here so that people who receive similar letters can easily find this posting/warning with Google:
Dear Meulìe Evert,
My names are Barrister Jose Grande and I work with Prades Asociados Spain. Actually, I got your contact information through the Norway public records while searching for a last name similar to my late client’s a business magnate by name William Evert, who lived in Spain for over a decade prior to his death, he died along with his nuclear family during the Tsunami catastrophe, which occurred December 2004.
Prior to my explaining further, I must first make an apology for this unsolicited mail to you. I am conscious that this is certainly not a predictable way of approach to foster a relationship of trust but because of the circumstances and urgency surrounding this claim.
Before the catastrophe; He deposited One Trunk Box/Diplomatic Personal Treasure, containing the sum of $10.8M TEN MILLION, EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) with a Safe Security Company here in Spain, because of security and personal reasons he did not disclose the exact content of deposited diplomatic box to the SAFE house. As the attomey to late William Evert, the security company has mandated me to present a member of his family (heir/inheritor) to make Claims or the vault will be confiscated and taken to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security as unclaimed.
After exhaustive efforts of search for a direct family member to my late client which came to no avail, I was given an ultimatum to look for some relative to come for the claim or have the Vault liquidated and made unserviceable in accordance with existing laws.
Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you to stand as the next of kin. I know you may not be anyway related to my late client but having a common surname with him and the modality I have in place I can guarantee that if you follow my instructions (The rule of laws) and capitalizing of some judicial loop holes the vault will be release to us.
Mind you that this transaction is 100% risk free; there is no atom of risk connected to this business as I have worked out all modalities to complete the operation effectively. Once the consignment (vault) is released to you, we shall divide the content in the ratio of 50% for you, 50% for me as our benefit. (S 5.4 Million each)
Kindly indicate your responses to this mail either via my office email address, my private email address, you can also call or send me a fax for further clarification. Please be kind to get back to me if you are not willing to collaborate with me so that I can further my search for another partner.Kind Regards,
José Grande Egüez. (ESQ.)
Why I am sure this is a scam? Hmm… Where do I start…
- the letterhead says Prades Asociado while the real firm is named Prades Asociados…
- Spanish companies do not transport their postal mail first to Portugal and mail it from there…
- Evert is not my last name, but my first name, so I am in no way related to anyone with the surname Evert…
- The real Jose Grande practices Maritime Law. I don’t think the Tsuname disaster, no matter how wet everything and everyone got, counts as martitime…
- The entire letter is written in absolutely horrible English, and reeks of Google Translate and/or Altavista Babel Fish.
What next? I have reported the letter to the Norwegian Police, and I encourage anyone else who receives a letter like this to also report it to the authorities.
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I got my third Spanish inheritance letter offering me 47% of 7milliom onw hundred thousand euros. Two from ´Teneriffa and one from Madrid. The first one I was curious and came in telephone contact and I distinctly heard a Nigerian accent.They sent me all kind of papers and a beautiful death certificate. This set me on alert. I asked why is the death certificate so beautiful and he replied it is so in Spain.
Again a bank manager called me and when I said you have a Nigerian accent. he became quite uppset and his barrister friend apologized for me. They sent all the papers at great financial loss to themselves and would like me to come down to sign for the money.
OF course during this time I got another letter from the competition with only 5 million Euros. .
Just thought I would put in my letter also. I got one from RYKE OVERMAS ASSOCIATES. It was to be split 50/50 from 9.5 million. Sad that someone would have had to die for this to be true, but wouldnt it be nice
It just keeps coming. They only change the name to match yours. I am intrigued by the changing amounts. There seem to be a lot of wealth people named Philips meeting untimely ends in Spain, along with their entire immediate families.
I just got one today from Ryke Overmas Associates Spain. Also saying that someone with the same last name died in a car accident. all the same stuff. $9.5million.
The name was also a Mr. Philips Black
Same amount etc., splitting it etc., and just randomly placing me as next of kin / beneficiary.
Thanks,
Debbie Black
Windsor, Ontario
I just got one today from Ryke Overmas Associates Spain. Also saying that someone with the same last name died in a car accident. all the same stuff. $9.5million.
They emphisize that they found my name in the CANADA public records.
Pretty sure no one’s name is purolized (Philips Eisfeld)
Too bad, could use $4.75 million.
Thanks
Geoff Eisfeld,
Toronto, Canada
my brother and my mother both received a similar letter in the mail from spain as well this one is from a barrister Richard gottlie who states that a peter befays who worked as an oil contracter to the Libya government under the regime of late col. muammar gaddafi died on the 4th may 2011 in the Libya revolution war in Tripoli but before his demise he deposited the some of $6.5 mill u.s.d in a security safe keeping institutions in spain on Wednesday 15th October 2005 at 12:17 pm.It also says that the lawyer will get 50% and my mother will get 45% and the remaining 5% will be set aside for any expenses incurred during the cause of securing this deposit.
My father got a very similar letter today. It came from a bank in Lisboa–her spelling–(which does exist) and the person sending the letter works in the bank in the position stated. He’s REALLY in the money–$69.4 million! He lives in Arkansas, USA. Interesting that the name of the person that he is supposed to contact is Susana Gomez. I noticed in an older post the name David Gomez.
My father Just received letter today from Barrister Martin David, Equity Law Firm, Valencia Spain. Apparently Gerald Esser and his family died in a car accident On Sunday, November 21st, 2005(Nov.21st,2005 is a Monday), BUT before he perished he deposited 28.5 million US dollars in a bank in Madrid-Spain. Now this lawyer has spent so much time looking for next of kin which he states has been very difficult for him, but since he found my dad, everything is just wonderful now and with a bit of information, he will split this money with my father 50/50!!! What a bunch of CRAP!!!! Don’t these people have anything better to do? Do people actually believe this nonsense? All it does is make you wish that this was real, and feel sorry for yourself because u don’t have this much $!!! Well, I always say “what goes around comes around”! They’ll get “theirs” in the end! Don’t fall for
this! Sincerely, Brenda Esser, Quakertown, PA, USA