27-07-2019, 11:41 AM
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Scam Inheritance Letters
Yesterday my husband received a letter from a 'lawyer' in Spain telling him that he was the sole benefactor in the will of a woman with the same surname as ours who had died recently in Madrid. The amount he could inherit was in excess of 5 million euros! All he had to do was email the lawyer and he would help my husband to prove that he was indeed related to this woman - someone whom my husband had never heard of. Suspecting a scam I did some googling to prove it was just that. I wonder where they got my husband's full name and our address - we are ex-directory so it wasn't from the 'phone book.Has anyone else received a similar letter? I've heard of email scams of this type but not of letters.
27-07-2019, 11:51 AM
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Re: Scam Inheritance Letters
Originally Posted by MargaretF
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Yesterday my husband received a letter from a 'lawyer' in Spain telling him that he was the sole benefactor in the will of a woman with the same surname as ours who had died recently in Madrid. The amount he could inherit was in excess of 5 million euros! All he had to do was email the lawyer and he would help my husband to prove that he was indeed related to this woman - someone whom my husband had never heard of. Suspecting a scam I did some googling to prove it was just that. I wonder where they got my husband's full name and our address - we are ex-directory so it wasn't from the 'phone book.Has anyone else received a similar letter? I've heard of email scams of this type but not of letters.
In the last 3 or 4 years?
27-07-2019, 12:03 PM
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Re: Scam Inheritance Letters
Originally Posted by MargaretF
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Yesterday my husband received a letter from a 'lawyer' in Spain telling him that he was the sole benefactor in the will of a woman with the same surname as ours who had died recently in Madrid. The amount he could inherit was in excess of 5 million euros! All he had to do was email the lawyer and he would help my husband to prove that he was indeed related to this woman - someone whom my husband had never heard of. Suspecting a scam I did some googling to prove it was just that. I wonder where they got my husband's full name and our address - we are ex-directory so it wasn't from the 'phone book.Has anyone else received a similar letter? I've heard of email scams of this type but not of letters.
27-07-2019, 12:25 PM
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Re: Scam Inheritance Letters
Originally Posted by tarantula
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I have received the inheritance I expected when my parents died, I don't want or require another.
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