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Article: city spy.(Column)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2005
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Tony Berry TO all City Spy's many readers in South America: beware of an email purporting to come from some friendly fellows who somehow manage to work at NatWest in London while living up north in Eccles.
They are offering a third of [pounds sterling]26 million to any Latino who will claim to be the nextofkin of Morris Thompson, an American who apparently died with his wife and daughter in an air crash. The accident mentioned is real - Alaska Airlines flight 261 went down off California five years ago. Since nobody has come forward for the estate, Fehmi Mehmet ("I am a staff of NatWest Bank, London") and his colleagues have decided to go into the probate ...